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groans and lamentations as surely never 
came from human throat before. In 
the darkness it was absolutely uncanny. 
“I’d like to go down and see who is 
dying,” whispered John, “what is a Holy 
Roller, please tell me.” 
Hendry was sitting, smoking, in the 
bow and looking out upon the star-lit 
bay. He turned sharply — eagerly. 
“Come — you go with me,” he said, “I 
show. Can he go. Mister Big John?” 
“Anywhere with you, Hendry,” was 
the sleepy response. But Mr. King’s 
thoughts were elsewhere at the moment. 
He was trying to work out in his own 
mind how Smallwood knew they were 
coming up to Chokoloskee. 
(to be continued) 
THE COLORS OF 
FISHES 
(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 243) 
it is not unlikely that other ordinarily 
conspicious reef fishes may have the 
same, which they assume especially when 
venturing away from the reef. 
R ecently a great deal has been j 
written about the coloration of ani- ! 
mals by persons differing as widely j 
in temperament and training as the poles. 
So much of it is contradictory, that it 
must be confusing to a student of the 
subject who has not a good many corre- 
lated observations of his own by which 
to guage it. To such a one, however, it 
is almost all of interest; he never can 
tell where he will find an idea or an ob- 
served fact that will modify or clarify 
his own views. The storm center of dis- 
cussion of late seems to have been as to 
the universality of concealing coloration. 
The Thayers,* with their artist’s train- 
ing in color values have shown how con- 
cealing coloration may be and probably 
is more widely existant than it at first 
thought appears. Roosevelt* has called 
attention to how exaggerated some of 
their claims are — and so it goes. It is 
not the writer’s purpose here to enter the 
discussion beyond sketching the facts 
with which he is familiar and indicating 
the manner in which he interprets them. 
The most reasonable hypothesis seems 
to be that on a “background” of inherit- 
ance modified by physiological considera- 
tions, an animal’s colors are generally 
useful to it in one or more of many ways. 
In a limited number of cases every other 
color tendency is subordinate to conceal- 
ment, in a vastly greater number of cases 
its colors give it a low visibility, set 
limits to its conspicuousness. Often con- 
spicuous colors, for warning, recognition, 
or some other benefit may be present, 
interfering sometimes little, sometimes 
greatly, with the tendency to inconspicu- 
ousness. There is little to be gained 
by dragging the theory of natural selec- 
tion into the discussion in its present 
stage. There is no doubt that it will ex- 
plain concealing, warning, directive, etc., 
coloration satisfactorily; the question is 
not can they be explained, but to what 
extent do they exist. 
• See Thayer G. H. & A. H.), Concealing Col- 
oration in the Animal Kingdom, 1909. 
* See Roosevelt, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 30, 
1911: 119-231. Am» ^lus. Journal, March, 1918; 
211-218. 
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