central types of mammalian picture-pattern cooperant with counter shading, 

 as far as they are known to us. Wittingly and unwittingly, we have passed 

 by a multitude of minor variations and adaptations, and may even have 

 missed some types of foremost importance. 



The next chapter deals mainly with the patterns of mammals which lack 

 diurnal obliterative shading. 



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