The animal is not hidden from view by becoming indistinguishable from its background, as in the cases of general resemblance, but it is mistaken for some well-known object.
In general resemblance the animal, in consequence of its colouring, produces the same effect as its environment, but the conditions do not require any special adaptation of shape and outline.
General resemblance is especially common among the animals inhabiting some uniformly coloured expanse of the earth's surface, such as an ocean or a desert.
Mr Squier notes in all the Nicaraguan statues a general resemblance, but at the same time marked individuality, and deems it possible to identify many of them with the gods of the Mexican Pantheon.
Rude inscriptions are scratched on the cliff in many places, bearing a general resemblance to those farther south, of which I have given many illustrations.
Others mentioned and sketched at Subtiava have a general resemblance to these.
There is also in the Southern and Western States a dark female form of the yellow Papilio turnus, which in all probability obtains protection from its general resemblance to P.
When a babbler espies a hawk-like bird, it does not wait to inspect each feather before fleeing in terror; hence all that is necessary to the cuckoo is that it should bear a general resemblance to the shikra.
These are elongate fishes with ctenoid scales and a general resemblance to small Hexagrammidæ.
These are small scaleless fishes with flat heads, the preopercle armed with a strong spine, the body bearing a general resemblanceto the smaller and smoother Cottidæ.
The Golden Eagle is so rare in the eastern United States and its general resemblance to a young Bald Eagle is so close, that only an experienced ornithologist could convince me that he had seen a Golden Eagle east of the Mississippi.
GREAT GRAY OWL Scotiaplex nebulosa nebulosa Largest of American Owls, with a general resemblance to the Barred Owl, but nearly a third larger and with yellow eyes.
The interiors of some of the town halls display fittings of Renaissance character, often rich and fanciful in the extreme, and bearing a general resemblance to French work of the same period.
The cathedral of Cefalu is a building bearing a general resemblance to that at Monreale, but not enriched in the same manner.
General resemblance of structure indicates a general resemblance in the purpose which the celestial bodies are intended to subserve.
That general resemblance of structure indicates a general resemblance in the purpose which the celestial bodies are intended to subserve is evident when we compare the stars with our sun or with each other.
The higher Silurian beds of Southern Scotland present a general resemblance to those of North Wales and the Lake District[80].
Examination of any two palaeo-physiographical maps of the same period by different authors will shew wide divergences in the details, but a general resemblance of the main features.
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