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REFERRING to Mr. A. M. Banta's letters on the above subject (NATURE, December 21, 1911, and May 9, 1912), it seems strange that a writer who professes to prove “positively that our [viz. N. American] birds do not eat butterflies to an appreciable extent.” should make no reference to the one memoir in which all the available evidence on the subject up to 1909 has been collected together—“Birds as a Factor in the Production of Mimetic Resemblances among Butterflies” (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1909, pp. 329–83). Mr. Banta writes very dogmatically, although he has made no attempt, or at least no successful attempt, to consult the literature of the subject of which he professes to treat.
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POULTON, E. The Distastefulness of Danaida (Anosia) plexippus. Nature 89, 375–376 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089375c0
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