Behavioral Ecology Advance Access originally published online on May 25, 2005
Behavioral Ecology 2005 16(4):823; doi:10.1093/beheco/ari060
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Reply to: European barn swallows use melanin pigments to color their feathers brown
Dipartimento di Chimica Organica, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Golgi 19, I-20133 Milan, Italy
Address correspondence to R. Stradi. E-mail: riccardo.stradi@unimi.it.
Received 29 July 2004; revised 3 February 2005; accepted 28 March 2005.
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McGraw et al. (2004)
have recently presented evidence that barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) feathers from the forehead and throat do not