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Notes and References:

Bowmaker, J. K., Heath, L.A., Wilkie, S. E., & Hunt, D. M. (1996) Visual Pigments and Oil Droplets from Six Classes of Photoreceptor in the Retinas of Birds Vis. Res., 37(16) pp. 2183-94

Hart, N. S. (2001) The Visual Ecology of Avian Photoreceptors. Progress in Retinal and Eye Research Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 675 to 703, 2001

Goldsmith T.H., Butler B.K. (2005) Color vision of the budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus): hue matches, tetrachromacy, and intensity discrimination. J Comp Physiol A (2005) 191: 933-951. doi:10.1007/s00359-005-0024-2

Osorio D., Vorobyev M., Jones C.D. (1999) COLOUR VISION OF DOMESTIC CHICKS. Journal of Experimental Biology 202, 2951-2959

Warrant E.J., Nilsson D.-E. (1998) Absorption of White Light in Photoreceptors. Vision Res., Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 195-207. PII: S0042-6989(97)00151-X

Stavenga D., Smits R.P., Hoenders B.J. (1993) Simple Exponential Functions Describing the Absorbance Bands of Visual Pigment Spectra. Vision Res. 33(8) pp. 1011-1017. doi:10.1016/0042-6989(93)90237-Q



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