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YOUR correspondent “A. B.” has propounded a theory which would satisfactorily explain a good many facts in natural history which have hitherto been extremely perplexing. I am strongly inclined to believe that in some of our birds, at any rate, the knowledge of localities is inherited. About thirty years ago I lived at a farmhouse, my father's home; the house stood alone in the country; my father also occupied some premises in a village, about half a mile distant. On these premises there was a large, very old dove-cot containing blue rock pigeons.
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Br. Zool. iii. 4to ed., p. 252.
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ELLIS, J. Inherited Memory. Nature 20, 122 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/020122a0
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