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Science 29 January 1965:
Vol. 147. no. 3657, pp. 510 - 513
DOI: 10.1126/science.147.3657.510
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Changes in the Tail Feathers of the Adolescent Lyrebird

L. H. Smith 1

1 National Parks Authority, 276 Collins Street, Melbourne, Australia

The changes which take place in the tail of the male lyrebird as it develops to maturity over a period of 7 to 8 years are attributable both to moulting and to processes whereby certain plain feathers are transformed into filamentaries and medians by growth of the rachis and loss of barbs and barbules.


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Changes in the Tail Feathers of the Adolescent Lyrebird.
L. H. Smith (1965)
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