Breeding biology of Rock Doves

01 October 1968
Comments Main paper Just over twenty years ago Lees (1946) published an account of the breeding of Rock Doves Columba livia on the Cromarty coast of Scotland. He showed that eggs could be laid in every month of the year, giving the species the distinction of having the mo...
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Letters

01 September 1954
Comments Letters SIRS,--I read with great interest the paper by Desmond Morris (antea, pp. 33-49) and the subsequent letter by A. J. Bruce (antea, p. 215) in which this subject is discussed. Bruce's theory, that a thrush (Turdus sp.) cannot afford to use its feet owing to...
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