...found, till I • happened to take a large bundle of long green moss, as it were, carelessly th t-own over the nest in order to dodge the eye of any impertinent intruder. — WHITE, Natural History of Selbome.1 TRAINING THE EYE The eye is susceptible of more training than...

...were desirous of remarking how this brood went on, but no nest could be found, till I happened to take a large bundle of long green moss, as it were, carelessly...order to dodge the eye of any impertinent intruder. — White: Natural History of Selborne. 2. THE ASS IN THE LION'S SKIN. An Ass, finding the skin of...

...with some degree of jealousy. Some days after, as we passed that way, we were desirous of remarking how this brood went on ; but no nest could be found,...order to dodge the eye of any impertinent intruder." t Active mimicry, rather than natural selection per se, appears very largely to account for the assimilative...

...until White happened to take up a large bundle of long green moss, which had, " as it were, [been] carelessly thrown over the nest, in order to dodge the eye of the impertinent intruder " (DB, XIV). This interpretation may seem too subtle, but I think it will...

...us with some degree of jealousy. Some days after as we passed that way we were desirous of remarking how this brood went on; but no nest could be found, till I happened to take up a large bundle of green moss, as it were, carelessly thrown over the nest, in order to dodge the eye of any impertinent...

...with some degree of jealousy. Some days after, as we passed that way, we were desirous of remarking how this brood went on ; but no nest could be found,...order to dodge the eye of any impertinent intruder." Actuated by a similar motive, old birds, which have their young much handled, use every art to induce...