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William Morton Wheeler, Clinton V. MacCoy, Ludlow Griscom, Glover M. Allen, Harold J. Coolidge Jr., Observations on the Behavior of Animals during the Total Solar Eclipse of August 31, 1932, Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 70, No. 2 (Mar., 1935), pp. 33-70
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