 | Great Britain - 1877 - 938 pages
...with spots, eyes, or patches of colour. Lastly, there are the jungle cats, of which the tiger is a typical species, and which have stripes, rendering...the lines follows those of the foliage. The tiger, walking horizontally on the ground, has transverse bars; the caterpillar, clinging to the grass in... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Archaeology - 1879 - 220 pages
...penetrate through foliage. So also many caterpillars are marked with spots, eyes, or patches of color. Lastly, there are the jungle cats, of which the tiger...because in each case the direction of the lines follows that of the foliage, The tiger, walking horizontally on the ground, has transverse bars ; the caterpillar,... | |
 | Grant Allen - 1879 - 316 pages
...lines, like the oblique ribs of the leaves." The jungle cats, too, such as the tiger, have perpendicular stripes, "rendering them very difficult to see among the brown grass which they frequent ; " while " the ground cats, such as the lion and puma," falling, of course, under our previous class,... | |
 | Grant Allen - Art - 1879 - 308 pages
...lines, like the oblique ribs of the leaves." The jungle cats, too, such as the tiger, have perpendicular stripes, "rendering them very difficult to see among the brown grass which they frequent ; " while " the ground cats, such as the lion and puma," falling, of course, under our previous class,... | |
 | John Lubbock (1st baron Avebury.) - Natural history - 1882 - 244 pages
...penetrate through foliage. So also many caterpillars are marked with spots, eyes, or patches of colour. Lastly, there are the jungle cats, of which the tiger...because in each case the direction of the lines follows that of the foliage. The tiger, walking horizontally on the ground, has transverse bars ; the caterpillar,... | |
 | Literature - 1877 - 852 pages
...marked with spots, eyes, or patches of color. Lastly, there are the jungle cats, of which the tiger is a typical species, and which have stripes, rendering...are perpendicular, while those of caterpillars are cither longitudinal or oblique. This, however, so far from constituting a real difference, confirms... | |
 | 1877 - 936 pages
...with spots, eyes, or patches of colour. Lastly, there are the jungle cats, of which the tiger is a typical species, and which have stripes, rendering...the lines follows those of the foliage. The tiger, walking horizontally on the ground, has transverse bars ; the caterpillar, clinging to the grass in... | |
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Lastly, there are the jungle cats, of which the tiger is a typical species, and which have stripes, rendering them very difficult to see among the brown grass which they frequent. It may, perhaps, be said that this comparison fails, because the stripes... 