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WITHOUT wishing to trespass further than I can help upon the space at disposal for discussing this topic, I may just explain that in my reply to Mr. Leslie, June 11, 1908, I distinctly gave it as my opinion that coloration had no connection with Mendelian principles. I concluded that coloration often depended on habitat, and was now useful as a means of protection; but the habitats (and nesting sites) of birds change, hence the anomalies met with which are cited as difficulties.
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HORWOOD, A. The Coloration of Birds' Eggs. Nature 82, 247 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/082247a0
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