AVIAN CAROTENOIDS 



astaxanthin in the red feathers of a S.W. African shrike, Laniarius 

 atrococcineus. 



There is only one report of preferential storage of carotenes in birds. 

 Some years ago Rosenheim and Webster * ^ claimed that the fulmar petrel 

 (Fulmarus glacialis) stores in the proventriculus an amber coloured oil 



Table 47. — Qualitative Carotenoid Distribution in Birds 



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4. Krukenberg, C. F. W. (1882), Physiol. Stud. Ser. II., Teil 1, 151. 



5. Brockmann, H., and Volker, O. (1934), Hoppe-Seyl. Z., 224, 193. 



6. KuHN, R., Stene, J., and SOrensen, N. A. (1938), Ber. deutsch. Chem. Ges., 72, 1( 



7. Test, F. H. (1942), Univ. Calif. Pub. ZooL, 46, 371. 



8. Kritzler, H. (1942), Anat. Rec, 84, 528. 



9. Kritzler, H. (1942), Physiol. ZooL. 16, 241. 

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