File:White fowl lacking countershading.jpg

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DescriptionWhite fowl lacking countershading.jpg	English: "White fowl, lacking counter-shading, against a flat white cloth. To show that a monochrome object can not be 'obliterated', no matter what its background. Photographed from life." Figure 7 from Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom by Gerald H Thayer and Abbott H Thayer, Macmillan,1909.
Date	1909
Source	own scan of figure from Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom, Macmillan, 1909
Author	Gerald H Thayer, Abbott H Thayer

A very similar photograph appears in Hugh Cott's 1940 Adaptive Coloration in Animals as Plate 7 "Colour resemblance alone is not sufficient to afford concealment". It shows a white cock with a large wattle and a plumed tail standing on a lawn against a white background. However it is facing left.

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