File:White fowl lacking countershading.jpg
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English: "White fowl, lacking counter-shading, against a flat white cloth. To show that a monochrome object can not be 'obliterated', no matter what its background. Photographed from life." Figure 7 from Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom by Gerald H Thayer and Abbott H Thayer, Macmillan,1909. |
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| Source | own scan of figure from Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom, Macmillan, 1909 |
| Author | Gerald H Thayer, Abbott H Thayer |
A very similar photograph appears in Hugh Cott's 1940 Adaptive Coloration in Animals as Plate 7 "Colour resemblance alone is not sufficient to afford concealment". It shows a white cock with a large wattle and a plumed tail standing on a lawn against a white background. However it is facing left.
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