Abstract
IN recent years the intensive observation of birds living in a state of Nature has led to the development of a branch of study which is not only full of interest to the outdoor naturalist, but may be as strictly scientific as the work of the museum specialist or the laboratory observer. The pioneer in this movement was undoubtedly Gilbert White, about whose book on “The Natural History of Selborne” it has been said that, together with Bewick's “History of British Birds”, it has been the main contributory cause of that widely spread interest in ornithology which has been so apparent in Great Britain since the beginning of the last century.1
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MARSHALL, F. Sexual Behaviour in Birds. Nature 124, 655–657 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124655a0
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