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THE free-living wild birds of Britain have not been examined extensively for members of the psittacosis lymphogranuloma venereum group. Apart from domestic pigeons living free in the cities, only herring gulls on Skomer Island have been incriminated definitely but there is also some serological evidence for infection in lesser black-backed gulls on the same Island1.
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Miles, J. A. R., and Shrivastav, J. B., J. Anim. Ecol., 20, 195 (1951).
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HAIG, D., MCDIARMID, A. Occurrence of Ornithosis in the Wood Pigeon. Nature 200, 381–382 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/200381c0
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