...cover as the single broken layer of the seaweed, must be exposed to exceptional danger from the sharp sea-birds hovering above them, and from the hungry...fishes searching for prey beneath, but one and all of the=e creatures imitate in such an extraordinary way, both in form and colouring, their floating habitat,...

...such scanty cover as the single broken layer of the sea-weed must be exposed to exceptional dangers from the sharp-eyed sea-birds hovering above them...both in form and colouring their floating habitat, that we can well imagine their deceiving both the birds and the fishes." A curious observation, recorded...

...about on the surface of the sea with such scanty cover as the single broken layer of the sea-weed, must be exposed to exceptional danger from the sharp-eyed...imagine their deceiving both the birds and the fishes A little short-tailed crab (Nautilograpsus minutus) swarms on the weed and on every floating object,...

...about on the surface of the sea with such scanty cover as the single broken layer of the sea-weed, must be exposed to exceptional danger from the sharp-eyed...imagine their deceiving both the birds and the fishes. ... A little short-tailed crab (Nautilograpsus minutus) swarms on the weed and on every floating object,...

...single broken layer of the sea weed, must be exposed to exceptional danger from the sharp-eyed sea birds hovering above them, and from the hungry fishes searching...imitate in such an extraordinary way, both in form and coloring, their floating habitat, and consequently one another, that we can well imagine their deceiving...