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DURING a month's leave in the Anamalai Hills, Cochin State, South India, I have been studying the question of attacks by birds on butterflies. Both place and season (February–March) were well suited to such a study. The hills are covered by rain-forest, holding a rich fauna of insectivorous birds; and when I was there, shortly before the rains, some forty species of butterflies were on the wing, and some of these were common to abundance.
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J. Bombay N.H. Soc., 38, 315 (1935).
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STONOR, C. Birds and Butterflies. Nature 154, 80–81 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154080b0
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