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" It is a suggestive fact that all the brightly-coloured birds mentioned above build in holes or form covered nests, so that the females do not need that protection during the breeding season which I believe to be one of the chief causes of the dull colour... "
Tropical Nature, and Other Essays - Page 179
by Alfred Russel Wallace - 1878 - 356 lehte
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The American Naturalist, 11. köide

1877 - 786 lehte
...it is best to include them also in this class. It is a suggestive fact that all the brightly colored birds mentioned above build in holes or form covered...believe to be one of the chief causes of the dull color of female birds when their partners are gayly colored. This subject is fully argued in my Contributions,...
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Macmillan's Magazine, 36. köide

1877 - 520 lehte
...is best to include them also in this class. It is a suggestive fact, that all the brightly coloured birds mentioned above build in holes or form covered...plants and flowers are very different from those of annuals both in their distribution and functions, it will be well to treat them separately : we will...
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Macmillan's Magazine, 36. köide

1877 - 528 lehte
...is best to include them also in this class. It is a suggestive fact, that all the brightly coloured birds mentioned above build in holes or form covered...are gaily coloured. This subject is fully argued in Щ Contributions, &c., chapter vii. As the colours of plants and flower.are very different from those...
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MacMillan's Magazine, 36. köide

Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1877 - 572 lehte
...is best to include them also in this class. It is a suggestive fact, that all the brightly coloured birds mentioned above build in holes or form covered...breeding season, which I believe to be one of the chief cause« of the dull colour of female birds -when their partners are gaily coloured. This subject is...
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The Journal of Physiology, 44. köide

1912 - 578 lehte
...in the atmosphere, producing a much larger yield of CO2. It is this last factor, in a modified form, which I believe to be one of the chief causes of the phenomena observed. It should be noted that these hypotheses, and others which were considered and...
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Romantic Love and Personal Beauty: Their Development, Causal ..., 1. köide

Henry T. Finck - 1887 - 446 lehte
...Lories, Tits, and Starlings ; among insects most of the largest and handsomest butterflies," etc. " It is a suggestive fact that all the brightly-coloured...female birds when their partners are gaily coloured." (4) Sexual Colours, comprising those cases in which the sexes differ, and with which Darwin's theory...
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Romantic Love and Personal Beauty: Their Development, Causal Relations ...

Henry T. Finck - 1887 - 650 lehte
...Toucans, Lories, Tits, and Starlings ; among insects most of the largest and handsomest butterflies," etc. "It is a suggestive fact that all the brightly-coloured...the dull colour of female birds when their partners ore gaily coloured." (4) Sexual Colourt, comprising those cases in which the sexes differ, and with...
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Romantic Love and Personal Beauty: Their Development, Causal ..., 1. köide

Henry T. Finck - 1887 - 586 lehte
...Starlings ; among insects most of the largest and handsomest butterflies," etc. "It is a suggestive fact X" that all the brightly-coloured birds mentioned above...female birds when their partners are gaily coloured." (4) Sexual Colours, comprising those cases in which the sexes differ, and with which Darwin's theory...
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Natural Selection and Tropical Nature: Essays on Descriptive and Theoretical ...

Alfred Russel Wallace - 1891 - 518 lehte
...conspicuously coloured in both sexes, and for whose particular colours we can assign no function or use.1 It comprises an immense number of showy birds, such...are gaily coloured. This subject is fully argued in chapter vi. of the present volume. Leaving the colours of flowers to be discussed in another chapter,...
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Natural Selection and Tropical Nature: Essays on Descriptive and Theoretical ...

Alfred Russel Wallace - 1891 - 516 lehte
...starlings ; among insects most of the largest and handsomest butterflies, innumerable brightx;oloured beetles, locusts, dragonflies, and hymenoptera ; a...are gaily coloured. This subject is fully argued in chapter vi. of the present volume. Leaving the colours of flowers to be discussed in another chapter,...
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