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BY WILLIAM E. GLEGG, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U.
[Read in abstract October 30th, 1948]
THIS habit, in so far as ornithologists in general are concerned,
may be described as new, although after the interest of
students had been stimulated older evidence was unearthed. It
may make my remarks more intelligible if I give a definition of
the term "anting." I use it to mean the application of ants by
the birds themselves to their plumage. The purpose of the habit
remains obscure. There is evidence to show that forms of life
other than ants have been used similarly by birds. The earliest
record of anting appears to be that of Abbott M. Frazar, who
describes in 1876 (Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, vol. 1, p. 76) anting by
a tame Crow (Corvus americanus).
A. H. Chisholm, in his article "The Problem of Anting" in
The Ibis, 1944, pp. 389-405, relates that it was not until 1934,