Nothing, I think, is more certain than that a far smaller percentage of so-called protectively coloured giraffes are killed annually by lions in Africa than of musk oxen by wolves in Arctic America.
It is obvious that all three of these diversely plumaged species cannot be protectively coloured.
Dewar maintains that it is possible to divide birds' eggs that are coloured, as opposed to those that are white, into two classes--those which are protectively coloured and those which are not.
Thus we have the spectacle of a protectively coloured creature continually moving, as if to attract attention, almost the only part of its body that is not protectively coloured!
There can be little doubt that, but for the fact that the hive-bee can inflict a sting more severe than that of the wasp, this useful insect would have been cited as a case of a protectively coloured creature.
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.
She spoke slightly angrily and contemptuously of them, rather protectively of me.
That coloured species occur in the Arctic regions and white species in the Tropics is conclusive proof that in those particular cases, at any rate, it is not of paramount importance to the species that they be protectively coloured.
Most birds are not protectively coloured; moreover, if they were so clothed as to be invisible amid their natural surroundings they would not derive much profit therefrom.
I notice that the button-balls on the sycamores are protectively colored also, and certainly they do not crave concealment.
Even such brilliant and gorgeously coloured birds as the sun-birds of Africa are, according to an excellent observer, often protectively coloured.
In those species in which the under surface is protectively coloured, we often find the upper surface alike in both sexes, the tint of colour being usually more intense in the male.
The snipes and the great army of sandpipers furnish innumerable instances of protectively coloured eggs.
We all know how well marked and conspicuous are the colours and forms of the stinging wasps and bees, no one of which in any part of the world is known to be protectively coloured like the majority of defenceless insects.
Frogs in all parts of the world are, usually, protectively coloured with greens or browns; and the little tree-frogs are either green like the leaves they rest upon, or curiously mottled to imitate bark or dead leaves.
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.
Species which inhabit open districts are usually protectively coloured; but they generally possess some distinctive markings for the purpose of being easily recognised by their kind, both when at rest and during flight.
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 protectivelycoloured species at once vanishes.
The fact that moths which, like the Geometræ, rest by day with the wings spread out, areprotectively marked on the upper side, fully corroborates this statement.
If phytophagic variability can have full play uncontrolled by natural selection in brightly-coloured caterpillars, ought not this phenomenon to be of more common occurrence in such species than in those protectively coloured?
This likeness to the seaweed among which it rests is doubtless a protective device, akin to that of protectively coloured birds' eggs.
Eggs which are deposited on the bare ground, or in other exposed situations, are usually protectively coloured: that is to say, the hue of the shell more or less completely harmonizes with the ground on which the egg is placed.
If nudibranchs and other marine invertebrates be protectively coloured, there must be corresponding perceptual powers in the fishes that are thus led to avoid them; for there seems to be definite avoidance, and not merely indifference.
But I think that if the protectively coloured larva had been regarded with mere indifference (i.
Both foxes and stoats are carnivorous and feed upon ptarmigan and hares, and they must be protectively coloured that they may catch their prey.
The large majority of monkeys are protectively coloured with some shade of brown or grey, with specially marked faces.
It might be taken as acting as a warning colour like that of the wasp or hornet, but we have also noticed the way in which conspicuous dress is replaced by protectively coloured uniforms when the soldiers are upon active service.
Insects, which are unfit for food or nauseous, are not protectively coloured, but on the contrary are rendered as conspicuous as possible.
In connection with this fact it is very interesting to notice that in all those cases where the hind-wings are exposed to view during repose, they are protectively coloured in a similar manner to the fore-wings.
In this class of colouring the fore-wings only are protectively coloured, the hind-wings being very conspicuous.
No one can maintain that our friend Corvus splendens is protectively coloured, that is to say, so coloured as to be inconspicuous.
The eggs of the Did-he-do-it, then, are interesting as forming perfect examples of protectively coloured objects.
As the hen drongo is a bird capable of looking after herself, even when incubating, there is no necessity for her 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 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.
This is a case upon which those who believe that eggs laid in open nests are protectively coloured would do well to ponder.
Heart pounding, she movedprotectively closer to the lean-to where Eagle Feather lay.
He turned to face the crowd, standing protectively in front of Nancy.
The White-eye and Tree-Creepers just noticed may be considered protectively colored, for they are difficult to see in a tree.
This very quaint insect is common on willows and poplars in England, and is on the wholeprotectively coloured.
This grub feeds usually on the vivid leaves of the privet; he is therefore protectively coloured a bright green, like that of the foliage about him.
Examples of a race of curiously protectivelycolored mice which inhabit the sandy island, the North Bull, in the Bay of Dublin, were exhibited by Dr.
As the females and young of the Sardinian moufflon, which are of a uniform brown colour, are more difficult to see than the males in their somewhat conspicuous autumn and winter coats, the latter cannot be said to be protectively coloured.
Her face was indistinguishable to him, for the light-waves had quickened protectively round her whole body, till she swam in glory.
It has been so often reiterated that diurnal butterflies, as a rule, areprotectively colored on the under surfaces, that one has some misgivings in stating the fact again.
One of the most curious of these is exhibited by several families of insects in which the outer wings are protectively colored in dull hues and the under wings brightly colored.
These eggs hatch into small green caterpillars that feed upon the leaves and are protectively colored so they are comparatively seldom seen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "protectively" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
