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SINCE the opportunity of studying an animal population in which interbreeding and genetical mixing between two hitherto good and mainly allopatric sub-species is taking place must be relatively uncommon, it may be of interest to report on the discovery and preliminary investigation of a situation of this kind occurring in New Zealand.
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STENHOUSE, D. The Redpoll in New Zealand : Interbreeding Sub-species. Nature 186, 488–490 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/186488a0
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