ACKNOWLEDGME TS LITERATURE CITED We would like to thank the students in the fall. BENT. A .C. 1971, class in Advanced Vertebrate Ecology for 1948. life his1ories of Norlh American nuthatches. their many man-hours of labor in extracting nut­ wrens. 1hrashers. and /heir allies. U.S. Natl. Mus. hatch data from the Christmas Bird Count vol­ Bull. 195. umes. In addition Mrs. Jackie Forsythe provided BOCK. C.E. and R.B. SMITH 1971. An analysis of Colorado Christmas Counts. valuable cone crop data for the United States. American Birds. 25: 945-947. This work was made possible in part through the LANSDOW E. J .F. and J .A . LIVINGSTON support of the University of Colorado Computing 1967. Birds of 1he norlhern fores/. McClelland and Center, E. Rex Krueger. Director. Stewart Ltd., Montreal and Toronto. The faculty in the biological sciences (including paleontology and several aspects of forestry) The Centers of Learning numbers approximately fifty. Those with an in­ terest in ornithological research include the following. Yale University Peter A. Jordan, Assistant Professor of Wild­ by Charles G. Sibley life Ecology, School of Forestry. Ecology of Ornithology at Yale can trace its origins back to game birds. 1834 when the first specimens of birds were added Richard S. Miller, Professor of Wildlife to the "Natural History Cabinet." With the Ecology, School of Forestry and Professor of founding of the Peabody Museum of Natural Biology. General ecology of birds and mam­ History in 1866 the Yale collections, especially in mals. paleontology and invertebrate zoology, began to Alvin ovick, Associate Professor of Bio- increase rapidly. Ornithology was part of the zoo­ logy. Behavior; orientation and navigation in logical department of the Museum but it did not bats and birds. really begin to nourish until 1946 when Dr. S. John H. Ostrom, Professor of Geology and Dillon Ripley joined the staff of the Peabody Geophysics and Curator of Vertebrate Paleon­ Museum. With characteristic vigor, Ripley es­ tology, Peabody Museum of Natural History. tablished ornithology as part of the academic Fossil birds; A rcheopteryx and the problem of curriculum and in the short span of 18 years added the origin of bird night. some 80,000 specimens to the scientific collec­ Charles L. Remington, Associate Professor tions. of Biology and Associate Curator of Entomol­ Today the facilities for ornithology at Yale ogy, Peabody Museum of Natural History. include a collection of 90,000 study skins, 8,700 Evolutionary principles. specimens preserved in alcohol and I, I 00 skele­ Charles G . Sibley, Professor of Ornithology, tons. The ornithological library contains over Curator of Birds and Director, Peabody Muse­ 4,000 volumes, sets of more than I 00 periodicals um of Natural History. Avian systematics and and a large reprint collection. Laboratories for distribution; protein structure as a source of research in biochemical systematics and equip­ data for classification. ment for field and museum studies are available. The thesis topics of present and recent graduate Within a few miles of ew Haven are several students include studies of the passerines of the university-owned natural areas for field studies. Aegean islands (George E. Watson), ontogeny The Yale Biological Field Station in Guilford and evolution in the megapodes (George A. Clark, includes areas of uplands, fresh water ponds and Jr.), passerine pterylography (~ary Heimerdinger marshes, salt marshes, estuaries and an island in Clench), passerine syringeal structure (Peter Long Island Sound. Ames), shorebird feeding ecology (M. C. Baker), The Peabody Museum of atural History con­ cowbird-host relationships (Stephen I. Rothstein), tains collections in all zoological and botanical ecological aspects of bird song ( Eugene S. Mor­ fields and the twenty curators are also professors ton), population ecology of Zonotrichia capensis in one of the four academic departments that are (Dennis Kalma), relationships of and within the involved in the Museum. shorebirds (Jon E. Ahlquist), relationships with­ Courses in general ornithology, the birds of the in the Anseriformes (Peter D. Bottjer). a study world, ecology, behavior, evolution, and related of the Galliformes (Jeffrey A. Spendelow), and subjects are given through the Department of the development of feeding behavior in gulls (Karl Biology and the School of Forestry. Tolonen). Volume 26, Number 3 561 .