Adaptive Coloration in AnimalsMethuen & Company, Limited, 1940 - 508 pages |
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... islands , and patches of desert , has been recorded by many writers . In 1898 Jameson ( 285 ) published an account of a pale - coloured race of the House Mouse ( Mus musculus ) found inhabiting sandhills on a small island called the ...
... islands , and patches of desert , has been recorded by many writers . In 1898 Jameson ( 285 ) published an account of a pale - coloured race of the House Mouse ( Mus musculus ) found inhabiting sandhills on a small island called the ...
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... Islands Alcock observed several kinds of shrimps living among the tentacles of a huge blue - spotted species . Like ... Island Potts ( 487 ) found a Crinoid ( Comatula parvicirra ) , with which were associated as commensals two species ...
... Islands Alcock observed several kinds of shrimps living among the tentacles of a huge blue - spotted species . Like ... Island Potts ( 487 ) found a Crinoid ( Comatula parvicirra ) , with which were associated as commensals two species ...
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... Islands . 1. The Shore Fishes . Bull . U.S. Fish . Comm . , XXIII , 1 , pp . xxviii + 574 , 138 Pls . , 229 figs . JOURDAIN , F. C. R. 1925. A Study on Parasitism in the Cuckoos . Proc . Zool . Soc . London , pp . 639-67 , 5 Pls . 1936 ...
... Islands . 1. The Shore Fishes . Bull . U.S. Fish . Comm . , XXIII , 1 , pp . xxviii + 574 , 138 Pls . , 229 figs . JOURDAIN , F. C. R. 1925. A Study on Parasitism in the Cuckoos . Proc . Zool . Soc . London , pp . 639-67 , 5 Pls . 1936 ...
Contents
THE METHODS BY WHICH CONCEALMENT | 5 |
ADAPTIVE RADIATION IN COLOUR RESEMBLANCE II | 11 |
CONCLUSION | 15 |
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