Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . ])ut alsoto countershading and the presence of a slight pattern ofboth light and dark bands. As regards concealing coloration within the water itself,we find innumerable instances, not only among oceanicinverte])rates but among fishes as well. ]My friend T. Nichols, of tlie American Museum of NaturalHistory, has called attention to the fact that many pelagic,free-swimming fishes (mackerel, dolphins, flying-fishes),Mith their e-reenisli or l)hiisli ])acks, silverv sides, and white 1 Tlie color cliaractciistics of tlic iijiiur surface of Prhin. as (lct<Tr
Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . ])ut alsoto countershading and the presence of a slight pattern ofboth light and dark bands. As regards concealing coloration within the water itself,we find innumerable instances, not only among oceanicinverte])rates but among fishes as well. ]My friend T. Nichols, of tlie American Museum of NaturalHistory, has called attention to the fact that many pelagic,free-swimming fishes (mackerel, dolphins, flying-fishes),Mith their e-reenisli or l)hiisli ])acks, silverv sides, and white 1 Tlie color cliaractciistics of tlic iijiiur surface of Prhin. as (lct<Triiinecl ina L. 8. naval laboratory, arc as follows: wave Icnjith of dominant luie, 485 mil-limicrons; saturation (i)cr cent, white) 8o; reflecting power, 30 per cent.; texture,mat; reflection, diffuse. The characteristics of Omega-gray, the hue inventedfor low visibility in the northern war zone, are vemarkalily like those of the bird,viz., wave length, iSfi inilliuiicrdiis; saturation. !)!); reflecting ]M)wer, to per An American submarine camouflaged by IVIr. W. A. Mackay in 1913, beforethe beginning of the European War. Green and blue stripes are separated bywhite stripes along the whole freeboard. 39
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