LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



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I. — Peacock amid foliage Frontispiece 



II. — Male RuSed Grouse in the forest 38 



III.— Two sketches of male Wood Ducks, in the water 59 



IV.— Male Wood Ducks 7° 



V. — Colored diagram illustrating the use of 'ruptive' coloration 77 



VI. — Blue Jays against snow, and Birds-of-Paradise in the tropical forest .... 107 



VII. — Cottontail Rabbit among ferns and moss and grasses 119 



VIII. — Roseate Spoonbills, and the skies they picture 147 



IX.— Roseate Spoonbill, Red Flamingoes, and twilight sky 156 



X. — Flamingoes, at dawn or sunset, and the skies they picture 156 



XI. — Copperhead Snake on dead leaves 172 



XII. — Caterpillars (Luna and green sphinx) . . 183 



XIII.— Caterpillars (of beech-, birch- and elm-leaf-edges) 188 



XIV. — Caterpillars (of beech- and oak-leaf-edges, etc.) 192 



XV.— Caterpillars. (Mirror-back larva, dead-leaf sphinx, frond-bearing larva) . . .194 

 XVI.— Caterpillar, and spider. (Pine-tuft sphinx, porcelain-white spider) . . . .196 



BLACK-AND-WHITE FIGURES 

 (Photographs from Nature, etc., and diagrams.) 



Diagram in the text, 3 figs., Chap. I 14 



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I. — Models illustrating the use of counter-shading. Photograph 24 



2. — Model illustrating the use of counter-shading. Photograph 24 



3. — Models illustrating the use of counter-shading. Photograph 24 



4. — Models illustrating the use of coimter-shading. Photograph .... 24 



5. — Models illustrating the use of counter-shading. Photograph 24 



6. — Plymouth Rock hen conspicuous against Plymouth Rock hen skins. Photograph . . 26 



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