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Recent studies in avian biology / Contributors: David E. Davis [and others].

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1955.Description: ix, 479 p. illus. 26 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 598.2
LOC classification:
  • QL 673 .W8 1955
Contents:
Concepts and problems of avian systematics in relation to evolutionary processes, by A.H. Miller.--Recent revisions in classification and their biological significance, by H. Friedmann.--Paleontology, by A. Wetmore.--Avian anatomy, 1925-1950, and some suggested problems, by H.I. Fisher.--The study of behavior in birds, by J.T. Emlen, Jr.--Bird navigation, by D.R. Griffin.--The annual stimulus for migration: experimental and physiologic aspects, by D.S. Farner.--Direct studies of nocturnal bird migration, by G.H. Lowery, Jr., and R.J. Newman.--Breeding biology of birds, by D.E. Davis.--Recent advances in knowledge concerning the role of hormones in the sex differentiation of birds, by L.V. Domm.--Some American population research on gallinaceous birds, by J.J. Hickey.--Birdbanding in the study of population dynamics, by D.S. Farner.--Diseases of birds, by C.M. Herman.
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Book Book Kamloops Office Stacks Non-fiction QL 673 .W8 1955 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 9495

Published under the sponsorship of the American Ornithologist's Union

Includes bibliographies.

Concepts and problems of avian systematics in relation to evolutionary processes, by A.H. Miller.--Recent revisions in classification and their biological significance, by H. Friedmann.--Paleontology, by A. Wetmore.--Avian anatomy, 1925-1950, and some suggested problems, by H.I. Fisher.--The study of behavior in birds, by J.T. Emlen, Jr.--Bird navigation, by D.R. Griffin.--The annual stimulus for migration: experimental and physiologic aspects, by D.S. Farner.--Direct studies of nocturnal bird migration, by G.H. Lowery, Jr., and R.J. Newman.--Breeding biology of birds, by D.E. Davis.--Recent advances in knowledge concerning the role of hormones in the sex differentiation of birds, by L.V. Domm.--Some American population research on gallinaceous birds, by J.J. Hickey.--Birdbanding in the study of population dynamics, by D.S. Farner.--Diseases of birds, by C.M. Herman.

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