Abstract
THE aim of this excellent book is to present, as the author states in the preface, “the essential features of the coloration of animals, and the various interpretations for that coloration which have been advanced by the sportsman-naturalist, as well as the man of science.…” Of the fifteen chapters, the first four are devoted respectively to an introduction, pigments, the infinite variety of coloration, and the evolution of colour-types; the fifth deals with rapid changes of colour in response to stimulus; the sixth to the ninth with protective coloration, both pro-cryptic and anticryptic; the tenth with mimicry, Batesian and Miillerian; the eleventh with warning coloration; the twelfth with the coloration of young animals; the thirteenth and fourteenth with sexual selection; the fifteenth with colour aberrations.
Camouflage in Nature.
By W. P. Pycraft. Pp. xiv + 280 + 36 plates. (London: Hutchinson and Co., Ltd., n.d.) 21s. net.
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P., E. Camouflage in Nature . Nature 118, 795–797 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118795a0
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