Temperature, Nest Humidity, and Behavioral Thermoregulation in a Hot Environment
(ISBN: 0-943610-30-3) AVIAN INCUBATION: EGG TEMPERATURE, NEST HUMIDITY, AND BEHAVIORAL THERMOREGULATION IN A HOT ENVIRONMENT BY GILBERT S. GRANT Departmentof Biology,University of California, Los Angeles ORNITHOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS NO. 30 PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION WASHINGTON, D.C. 1982 AVIAN INCUBATION: EGG TEMPERATURE, NEST HUMIDITY, AND BEHAVIORAL THERMOREGULATION IN A HOT ENVIRONMENT ORNITHOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS This series, publishedby the American Ornithologists'Union, has been estab- lished for major paperstoo long for inclusionin the Union's journal, The Auk. Publicationhas been made possible through the generosity of thelate Mrs. Carll Tucker and the Marcia Brady Tucker Foundation, Inc. Correspondenceconcerning manuscriptsfor publication in the series should be addressedto the Editor, Dr. Mercedes S. Foster, USFWS, NHB-378, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. 20560. Copies of Ornithological Monographs may be ordered from the Assistant to the Treasurer of the AOU, Glen E. Woolfenden, Department of Biology, Uni- versity of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33620. (See price list on back and in- side back cover.) Ornithological Monographs, No. 30, ix + 75 pp. Editor of AOU Monographs, Mercedes S. Foster Special Reviewers for this issue, Cynthia Carey, Department of Environ- mental, Population, and Organismic Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado; Donald F. Hoyt, Department of Biological Sci- ences,California State PolytechnicUniversity, Pomona, California; S. Charles Kendeigh, Department
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