Adaptive Coloration in AnimalsMethuen & Company, Limited, 1940 - 508 pages |
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... species the divergent colour differences exhibited within different families and orders is commonly correlated with the diversity of surroundings occupied by the several species and genera . Such a relation is found , for instance , in ...
... species the divergent colour differences exhibited within different families and orders is commonly correlated with the diversity of surroundings occupied by the several species and genera . Such a relation is found , for instance , in ...
Page 117
... species of birds , are not coloured so as to be incon- spicuous at all , in any normal surroundings , while few classes of animals appear to comprise such a large proportion of species which are positively conspicuous — as are many ...
... species of birds , are not coloured so as to be incon- spicuous at all , in any normal surroundings , while few classes of animals appear to comprise such a large proportion of species which are positively conspicuous — as are many ...
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... species in which both sexes are highly conspicuous and which breeds quite in the open . But in this case the parent bird is a strong flyer and thus tolerably safe from attack ( so that it hardly falls into the present category ) : but ...
... species in which both sexes are highly conspicuous and which breeds quite in the open . But in this case the parent bird is a strong flyer and thus tolerably safe from attack ( so that it hardly falls into the present category ) : but ...
Contents
SEASONAL DIMORPHISM | 17 |
MORPHOLOGICAL COLOUR | 24 |
OBLITERATIVE SHADING | 35 |
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