. Animal coloration; an account of the principal facts and theories relating to the colours and markings of animals. Color of animals. 254 ANIMAL COLORATION. (Red Admiral, Peacock, Tortoisesliell, etc.) present identical tints in both sexes. In others, on the contrary, the colours are so different that they might be taken for different species. The Ghost Swift lias white shining' wings in the male sex, and brown with orange markings in the female ; the males of the " Bines," for the most part, alone deserve their name, for the females have a prevailing brown colour. Among moths the d
. Animal coloration; an account of the principal facts and theories relating to the colours and markings of animals. Color of animals. 254 ANIMAL COLORATION. (Red Admiral, Peacock, Tortoisesliell, etc.) present identical tints in both sexes. In others, on the contrary, the colours are so different that they might be taken for different species. The Ghost Swift lias white shining' wings in the male sex, and brown with orange markings in the female ; the males of the " Bines," for the most part, alone deserve their name, for the females have a prevailing brown colour. Among moths the difference is sometimes reduced to little more than a difference in size—as, for example, the Leopard moth. The female of the Vapourer, Winter moth, and some others (fig. 28). Fig. 2S.—c, Female of Px;/e!n h'-lis. li. Male, c, Case of the male ; c', nf the female caterpillar. have almost completely lost those characteristic organs of the Lepidoptera—the wings. The colours of dragon-flies some- times differ in the two sexes, and there are plenty of other examples among other insects of the same phenomenon. Among the Isopod Crustaceans (of which the common woodlonse is a familiar example), there are secondary sexual differences which seem to be unnecessary, that is to say, they have, or appear to have, no relation to pairing ; they are merely evidence of rnaleness or femaleness as the case may be. In certain species of Sphjeromidte the males have a long spine upon the back—a structure which is entirely wanting in the female. In Ce/-atocephalus grayanus, a large. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Beddard, Frank E. (Frank Evers), 1858-1925. London, S. Sonnenschein & co. ; New York, Macmillan & co.
Size: 1697px × 1472px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorbeddardf, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookyear1892
