Show ulrus strangely concealed mr A H thayer an artist believes he has discovered that the light color of the under parts of birds and small mammals serves to conceal them f from rom their enemies at a recent meeting of the american ornithologists union he proved by experiments that an all object nearly of the color of the ground like a potato is very conspicuous when placed a few inches above the soil and viewed from a little distance but when the under tinder side is painted white and gradually shaded into the color oi of the upper part the object disappears by blending with the ground the whiteness beneath beneat h counteracts the effect of the shadow of the body |