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Back Matter (PDF) RECENT ORNITHOLOGICAL LITERATURE, No. 73 Supplement to: TheAuk, Vol.114, No. 3, July19971 TheIbis, Vol.139, No. 3, July19972 Publishedby the AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS'UNION, the BRITISHORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION, and the ROYAL AUSTRALASIAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION CONTENTS New Journals .............................................. 2 GeneralBiology ............................................ 41 Behavior and Vocalizations ................................ 3 General .................................................. 41 Conservation ............................................... 5 Afrotropical............................................. 42 Diseases,Parasites & Pathology........................... 9 Antarctic and Subantarctic .............................. 42 Distribution ................................................ 10 Australasia and Oceania ................................. 43 Afrotropical............................................. 10 Europe................................................... 44 Australasia and Oceania ................................. 11 Indomalayan............................................. 48 Europe................................................... 12 Nearctic and Greenland ................................. 48 Indomalayan............................................. 17 Neotropical.............................................. 52 Nearctic and Greenland ................................. 17 North Africa & Middle East ............................. 53 Neotropical.............................................. 19 Northern Asia & Far East ............................... 53 North Africa & Middle East ............................. 22 Histories,Bibliographies, and Catalogs .................... 55 Northern Asia & Far East ................. ' .............. 22 Identification ............................................... 55 Ecologyand Populations................................... 23 Migrationand Orientation................................. 56 Evolution,Systematics, Genetics, & Hybrids............... 33 Morphology,Physiology, Molt, Development .............. 59 FeedingBehavior, Diet, & Predators....................... 37 Paleontology,Zooarchaeology, Ethnobiology .............. 66 Pesticides and Pollution .................................... 67 Miscellaneous .............................................. 69 Citation:AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION. 1997.Recent Ornithological Literature, Auk 114(3, Suppl.):l-70. 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Submittal via e-mail or on diskette (WP or ASCII) with hard copy preferred.Entries should include: author's name, year of completion,title, "Ph.D. dissert.",university name and location,(author's postal and e-mail addresses),and a 1-2 sentenceabstract, not a full-dress abstract. JAMESBInSKIP (Palearctic Editor, BOU), Departmentof Zoology,University of Oxford,South Parks Road,Oxford OX1 3PS, UK. e-mail:[email protected] R. TERRYCHESSER (Neotropical Editor, AOU), Departmentof Ornithology,American Museum of Natural History, CentralPark Westat 79th Street,New York,New York 10024-5192,USA. e- mail: [email protected] SPANR. PYWELL(Australasian Editor, RAOU), Departmentof Ecologyand Evolutionary Biology, MonashUniversity, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia. e-mail: [email protected] JAYM. SHEPPARD(Nearcftc Editor, AOU), 3359 CranberrySouth, Laurel, Maryland 20724-2419, USA.e-mail: [email protected]. 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Journal of theSociety of Eco- e-mail: [email protected], logicalRestoration. Four issues per volume(year). notes and letters on Hungarian birds and on all Issue 73 3 aspectsof ornithology.Papers published in Hun- tus and latitude are unrelated in wintering Dark- garianor English.--T.S. eyed Juncos.Condor 94: 539-542. (Dept. Biol., In- diana Univ., Bloomington,IN 47405,USA.)•Junco BEHAVIOR AND VOCALIZATIONS hyemalis. CRISTOL,D. g., ET AL. 1992. Color bands do not affect QIHfi.K, K., ETAL. 1995. [Unusual song of Blackcap dominance status in captive flocks of wintering (Sylvia atricapilla).]Sylvia 31: 75-81. (Sochorova Dark•eyedJuncos. Condor 94: 537-539.(Dept. 1551, CZ-544 01 Dvfir Krfilov• nad Labem, Czech Biol., Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN 47405, Republic.)---Oneindividual with unusual song. USA.--Juncohyemalis. (Czech,Engl. summ.)•J.V.B. DABELSTEEN,T., ET AL. 1996. IS the signal value of BOHNER,J., •r A. WISTEL-WO•NIAK.1995. Chaffinch overlapping different from that of alternating Fringilla coelebssong in western and southernPo- during matched singing in Great Tits? J. Avian land: songtypes, repertoire size, and the terminal Biol. 27: 189-194.(Dept. Popul. Biol. & Ctr. Sound element "kit". Acta Ornithol. (Warsaw) 30: 107- Communic.,Zool. Inst., Univ. Copenhagen,Univ- 115. (Inst. Behav.Biol., Free Univ. Berlin,Hadersle- ersitetsparken15, DK-2100 Copenhageno, Den- benerStr. 9, D-12163Berlin, Germany.) mark.)•Interactive playback experiments using BIRKHEAD,T. R. 1995.Sperm competition: evolution- Parusmajor.--R.T.B. ary causesand consequences.Reprod. Fertil. Dev. DALY, G., & S. EvISON. 1996. Observations on the 7: 755-775.(Dept. Anim. PlantSci., The Univ., Shef- Square-tailed Kite in the Shoalhaven District field S10 2TN, UK.)•Describes interactionbetween [NSW]. Aust. Birds 29: 40-43. (C/- P.O., N. Nowra, functionaland mechanisticapproaches and be- NSW 2541,Australia.)•Lophoictinia isura. tween male and femaleperspectives using study of DEBUS,S. J. S. 1996. Mating behaviour of the Taeniopygiaguttata.--S.R.P. Southern Boobook Ninox novaeseelandiae. Aust. BROOKER,B., & V. SAFFER.1996. A wing-flickingdis- Bird Watcher16: 300-301.(Zool. Dept.,Univ. New play precedingcopulation of the Hooded Robin England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia.)•Call- Melanodryas cucullata. Aust. Bird Watcher 16: ing sequencesand food-passingbehaviour.--I.D.E. 302-303. (Sch. Biol. Environ. Sci., Murdoch Univ., DOLATA,P. T., & W. KURZAWSKI.1996. [Aggression WA 6150,Australia.)•Male displayfrom dead tree by a Mute Swan Cygnusolor male againstits own limb.--I.D.E. "Polish morph" cygnet.] Przegl. Przyr. 7: 86-87. BUCHHOLZ,R. 1995.The descendingwhistle display (ul. Sobieskiego19/13, 63-400 Ostr6w Wielkopol- and female visitation rates in the Yellow-knobbed ski, Poland.)(Polish, Engl. summ.) Curassow, Crax daubentoni, in Venezuela. Omi- FISCHER,S., K.-H. FROMMOLT,& G. TEMBROCK.1996. tol. Neotrop. 6: 27-36. (Dept. Zool., 223 Bartram [Variability of song in the Great Reed Warbler Hall, Univ. Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.)• Acrocephalusarundinaceus.] J. Ornithol.137: 503- Displayssimilar to thoseassociated with intrasex- 513. (Inst. f. Biol. d. Humboldt-Univ. zu Berlin, In- ual signallingin otherbird species.--R.T.C. validenstr.43, D-10115Berlin, Germany.)(German, CAPP,M.
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