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What wonder that it is so difficult , almost impossible , to discover the bird in such
an attitude ! But how happened it that while repeatedly walking round the bird
through the rushes I had not caught sight of the striped back and the broad dark ...
What wonder that it is so difficult , almost impossible , to discover the bird in such
an attitude ! But how happened it that while repeatedly walking round the bird
through the rushes I had not caught sight of the striped back and the broad dark ...
Page 351
Closely comparable — in an entirely different group of animals — is the
procryptic attitude habitually adopted by small weed - dwelling , weed - like
Tectibranch molluscs such as Aplysia punctata , which have been observed by
Garstang to ...
Closely comparable — in an entirely different group of animals — is the
procryptic attitude habitually adopted by small weed - dwelling , weed - like
Tectibranch molluscs such as Aplysia punctata , which have been observed by
Garstang to ...
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... 19 attitude of , 100-102 , 110 , 350-355 ; Pallas's 126 prepared cryptic place of ,
355-357 Sand - Martin , 127 Reticulated Python , 197 Sandpiper , 61 , 88 , 124
Rhea , 22 Purple , 117 Rhinoceros , bushman's method of approach Spotted ...
... 19 attitude of , 100-102 , 110 , 350-355 ; Pallas's 126 prepared cryptic place of ,
355-357 Sand - Martin , 127 Reticulated Python , 197 Sandpiper , 61 , 88 , 124
Rhea , 22 Purple , 117 Rhinoceros , bushman's method of approach Spotted ...
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Contents
THE METHODS BY WHICH CONCEALMENT | 5 |
ADAPTIVE RADIATION IN COLOUR RESEMBLANCE II | 11 |
COLOUR RESEMBLANCE DUE TO CHOICE OF APPROPRIATE BACKGROUNDS | 18 |
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