Column A contains species names. The corresponding phylogenetic tree can be obtained at: (http://purl.org/phylo/treebase/phylows/study/TB2:S12968). Columns B-I are the countershading measures taken from analysis of calibrated images of museum specimens. Columns J-O are ecological and beavioural predictors of countershading variation. Column headings are self-explanatory. Can be saved as a tab-delimited .txt file