Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 346
I THE COLORS OF ANIMALS (From Chapters in Popular Natural History.)By sir JOHN LUBBOCK, BART., M.P., F.R.S., etc. … HE color of animals is by nomeans a matter of chance; itdepends on many considera-tions, but in the majority ofcases tends to protect the ani-mal from danger by renderingit less conspicuous.Perhaps it may be said that ifcoloring is mainly protective, thereought to be but few brightly col-ored…
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