Vespertilio, which is protectively coloured both in the young and in the adult stages; and likewise D.
All the frogs found in the woods round St. Domingo are, with one exception, protectively coloured; they are of nocturnal habits, and are devoured by snakes and birds.
If it be admitted that the ocelli of caterpillars are thus means of exciting terror, the difficulty of their occurring in protectively colouredspecies at once vanishes.
The same general principle enables us to understand the singular, and often conspicuous, markings on so many gregarious herbivora which are yet, on the whole, protectively coloured.
The snipes and the great army of sandpipers furnish innumerable instances of protectively coloured eggs.
The majority of eggs are laid in nests which are either covered in or more or less well concealed among foliage, hence there is no necessity for them to be protectively coloured.
Obviously both sets of eggs could not be protectively coloured; as a matter of fact, both clutches of eggs were conspicuous objects.
The eggs of the Did-he-do-it, then, are interesting as forming perfect examples of protectively coloured objects.
The assumption of a white winter coat by many organisms that live in northern latitudes has been cited, again and again, as showing how important it is for an animal to be protectively coloured.
It is obvious that all three of these diversely plumaged species cannot be protectively coloured.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "protectively coloured" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
