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MRS. NICE is well known to ornithologists as an indefatigable and scientific observer, whose previous detailed studies on the song sparrow (Melospiza melodia), published in 1937 as voL 4 of the Transactions of the Linncean Society of New York, had shed new light on the detailed behaviour of particular individuals of a particular bird species in Nature, as well as extending our general ideas on the territory theory. In a second work* she brings together under their various heads the behaviour traits of the song-sparrows she has watched in Nature and those she has hand-reared herself (all her observations concern colour-banded and therefore individually recognizable individuals), together with a vast amount of data on other species from the recent literature. Thus we have here one of the first essays in the comparative study of avian behaviour.
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HUXIEY, J. Behaviour of the Song Sparrow and other Passerines. Nature 153, 144–145 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153144a0
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