Animal coloration : an account of the principal facts and theories relating to the colours and markings of animals (1892)
Beddard Frank E. (Frank Evers), 1858-1925, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh · London : S. Sonnenschein · leaf 290
270 ANIMAL COLOEATION. In certain motbs, where tlie female is partlj"^ degenerate, tlie male is not very brightly coloured, A striking case of this is … J?ig. 33.— Night-jar. afiForded by the Vapourer moth (see fig. 15) : the female is here wingless, and does not therefore get very far away from the cocoon ; the male is comparatively plainly coloured. In the
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