Darwinism: an exposition of the theory of natural selection (1905)
Macmillan and co. · leaf 246
AND USES OF COLOUR IN ANIMALS 219 of Africa—we find many distinctive markings of a similar kind. The gazelles have variously striped and handed faces, besides white patches behind and on the flanks, as shown in the woodcut. The spring-hok has a white patch on the face and one on the sides, with a… … upturned white tail of the rabbit. In the pallah the white rump-mark is bordered with black, and the peculiar shape of the horns distinguishes it when scen from the front. The sable-antclope, the gems-bok, the oryx, the hart- beest, the honte-bok, and the addax have each peculiar white markings;…
Darwin’s theory · Variability of species · Natural selection · Colour perception · Mimicry · Evolution
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