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Tropical nature, and other essays

Note 19 — V. THE COLOURS OF ANIMALS AND SEXUAL SELECTION.

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For fuller information on this subject the reader should consult Mr. Bates’s original paper, “Contributions to an Insect-fauna of the Amazon Valley,” in Transactions of the Linnean Society, vol. xxiii. p. 495; Mr. Trimen’s paper in vol. xxvi. p. 497; the author’s essay on “Mimicry,” &c., already referred to; and in the absence of collections of butterflies, the plates of Heliconidæ and Leptalidæ, in Hewitson’s Exotic Butterflies, and Felder’s Voyage of the “Novara,” may be examined.

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