Lexicographical Neighbors of Countershading
Literary usage of Countershading
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life-histories of African Game Animals by Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Heller (1914)
"If countershading were produced by selection working for concealment, ... In the
case of beasts of prey, the prime use of countershading would be when ..."
2. General Biology: A Book of Outlines and Practical Studies for the General by James George Needham (1910)
"... the gray of the body when the shadow of the body is added to it will be most
striking, and the advantage of the lighter countershading will be apparent. ..."
3. The Rediscovered Country by Stewart Edward White (1915)
"Countershading. Considered as a tendency, as a fact, among others, ... In other
words, countershading tends not so much to conceal an animal when he is ..."
4. Life-histories of African Game Animals by Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Heller (1914)
"... by its countershading. Apparently its coloration may fairly be called concealing,
and yet apparently this quality of its coloration is of little or no ..."
5. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1907)
"It does not «ay that patterns and countershading exist to conceal animals, but
shows that thry do always conceal them. ..."
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