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On the Sense of Hearing in Birds

Nature volume 15, pages 334–335 (1877)Cite this article

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THE sense of hearing is doubtless of much assistance in discovering the food of such birds as the scansores—to wit, woodpeckers, creepers, wrynecks and the like, which feed on insects.

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ADAMS, A. On the Sense of Hearing in Birds. Nature 15, 334–335 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/015334c0

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