Letters

01 January 1960
Comments Letters A n t i n g and dust-bathing Sirs,--I read with interest the paper by K. E. L. Simmons on anting behaviour {Brit. Birds, 50: 401-424). In that, Simmons rejected A. H . Chisholm's theory that anting derived from dust-bathing. In this connection, however, i...
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Letters

01 August 1946
Comments Letters --The habit, referred to by several contributors to this and the previous volume T f this journal (antea, Vol. xxxviii, pp. 206, 300, 360, Vol. > xxxix, pp. 159,160) in which parent birds of many species probe into the nest lining beneath the young, has b...
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