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THE cones of many bird and reptile retinas contain brilliantly coloured oil globules. In the chicken they are red, golden and yellow-green1,2. They possess considerable interest, for light must filter through them to enter the sensitive cone outer limbs, and they may serve, therefore, as a mechanism for colour vision3.
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