Identifier: colourationinani00tylo (find matches)
Title: Colouration in animals and plants
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Tylor, Alfred, 1824-1884 Skertchly, Sydney B. J. (Sydney Barber Josiah), 1850-1927
Subjects: Color of animals Animal behavior Plants
Publisher: London : Printed by Alabaster, Passmore and Sons
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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KALLIMA INACHUS. Colour, its Nature and Recognition. 2*.) very special purposes. Such is actually the case. The sense organsare frequently picked out with black, as witness the noses of dogs,the tips of their ears, the insertion of their vibrissse, or whiskers, andso on; and white is the most usual warning or distinctive colour, aswe see in the white stripes of the badger and skunk, the white spotsof deer, and the white tail of the rabbit. Colour, then, as expressed in definite tints and patterns, is noaccident; for although, as Wallace has well said, colour is thenormal character, yet we think that this colour would, if unrestrainedand undirected, be indefinite, and could not produce definite tints,nor the more complicated phenomenon of patterns, in which definitehues are not merely confined to definite tracts, but so frequentlycontrasted in the most exquisite manner. As we write, the beautifulRed Admiral ( V. atalanta) is sporting in the garden; and who canview its glossy black velv

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