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EDITOR

ALAN H. BRUSH

COPY EDITOR

GAIL W. HUNTER

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

FRED E. LOHRER, M. ROSS LEIN

VOLUME 106

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THE AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION

1989

CONTENTS OF VOLUME 106

NUMBER 1

EXPERIMENTAL INDUCTION OF INFANTICIDE IN FEMALE WATTLED JACANAS. Stephen T. Emlen, Nat- alie J. Demon S, and Dou$las J. Emlen ................................................................................................................................. 1

A. CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE TRANSOCEANIC MIGRATION OF THE BLACKPOLL WARBLER. Bertram G.

Murray Jr ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 8 VARIATION IN DAILY ENERGY EXPENDITURE IN NESTING NORTHERN WHEATEARS (OENANTHE

OEN,•NTHE). Juan Moreno ........................................................................................................................................................ 18 EGG TEMPERATURES AND PARENTAL BEHAVIOR DURING THE TRANSITION FROM INCUBATION TO

BROODING IN THE AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN. Roser M. Evans ................................................................. 26 PLUMAGE PIGMENT DIFFERENCES IN MANAKINS OF THE PIPRA ERYTHROCEP•ALA SUPERSPE-

CIES. Jocelyn Hudon, A. P. Capparella, and Alan H. Brush ............................................................................... 34 SEARCH-PATH CHARACTERISTICS OF FORAGING RUDDY DUCKS. Michael 16/. Tome .................................... 42

CHARACTERISTICS, USE, AND SIGNIFICANCE OF TWO SINGING BEHAVIORS IN GRACE'S WARBLER (D•N•vROlC,• cR,•c•,•). Cynthia A. Staicer ..................................................................................................................... 49

PHYSIOLOGICAL BASIS AND ECOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF SUGAR PREFERENCES IN CEDAR WAXWINGS. Carlos Martinez del Rio, 16/. H. Karosoy, and D. J. Levey ..................................................... 64

THE NATAL DISPERSAL OF RUFFED GROUSE. Robert J. Small and Donald H. Rusch ................................... 72 GASTRIC EMPTYING AND GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY IN LEACH'S STORM-PETREL CHICKS (OCEAN¸D-

ROM,• L•UCHOR•O,•). Gary E. Duke, A. R. Place, and B. Jones ........................................................................ 80 REPRODUCTIVE •.CTIVITY OF FORCE-PAIRED COCKATIELS (NYMPHICLIS HOLLANDICLIS). J.T. Yamamoto,

K. M. Shields, J. R. Millam, T. E. Roudybush, and C. R. Grau ........................................................................... 86 CONDITIONS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF NIGHT FEEDING IN SHOREBIRDS AND OTHER WATER BIRDS IN A

TROPICAL LAGOON. Michel Robert, Raymond McNeil, and Alain Leduc ................................................. 94 NEST-SITE TENACITY AND PATTERNS OF ADULT MORTALITY IN NESTING CALIFORNIA GULLS (LARI,IS

c,•L•ro•c•s). Joseph R. Jehl Jr ......................................................................................................................................... 102 RELATIONSHIPS OF STEROID HORMONES AND POLYGYNY TO TERRITORIAL STATUS, BREEDING EXPERIENCE,

AND REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS IN MALE RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS. Les D. Beletsky, Gordon H. Orions, and John C. Winsfield .................................................................................................................................................. 107

COMPARISONS OF PATCH-USE MODELS FOR WINTERING AMERICAN TREE SPARROWS. Sarah Gaines 118 GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION OF GROUP SIZE, ONTOGENY, RATTLE CALLS, AND BODY SIZE IN APHELOC¸MA

LILTRAMARINA. Jerram L. Brown and Eric G. Horvath ........................................................................................... 124 PITFALLS AND IMPROVED TECHNIQUES IN A. VIAN PARENTAGE STUDIES. Linda Romasnano, Terry R.

Mcguire, and Harry W. Power ............................................................................................................................................... 129 IN MEMORIAM: RALPH W. SCHREIBER. Glen E. Woolfenden ....................................................................................... 137 IN MEMORIAM: BETTY CARNES. C. Stuart Houston ........................................................................................................... 140

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

Flight Speeds and Energy Requirements for White Ibises on Foraging Flights. C. ]. PennFcuick and Toni De Santo ........ 141 The Taxonomic Status of the Small Ground-Finch, Geospiza (Aves: Emberizidae) of Genovesa Island, Galfipagos, and Its

Relevance to Interspecific Competition. Joseph VagvolgFt and Maria W. VagvolgFi ........................................................... 144 Homing Experiment with Leach's Storm-Petrels. Elizabeth Car F Pierson, Charles E. Huntington, and Nathaniel T.

Wheelwright ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 148 Sex Differences in Risk-taking Behavior in Foraging Flocks of House Sparrows. Randall Breitwisch and Joann Hudak ... 150

COMMENTARIES

Aerial Agility and the Evolution of Reversed Sexual Dimorphism (RSD) in Shorebirds. Helmut C. Mueller ................... 154 Response: Evolution of Sexual Size Dimorphism. Joseph R. j'ehl j'r. and Bertram G. Murra F]r ............................................... 155 The Study of Geographic Variation. Robert M. Zink ....................................................................................................................... 157 Response to R. M. Zink. j'. D. Rising ................................................................................................................................................... 160 Response to P. R. Ehrlich, D. S. Dobkin, and D. Wheye. Eloise F. Potter ................................................................................... 163

BOOK REVIEWS. Edited by M. Ross Lein ................................................................................................................................... 165 100 YEARS AGO IN THE A• ............................................................................................................................................................... 117

NOTES AND NEWS ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 17

NUMBER 2

GENETIC ANALYSIS OF OFFSPRING OF A FEMALE-FEMALE PAIR IN THE LESSER SNOW GOOSE (CHEN C. CAERULESCENS). Thomas W. Quinn, J. Chris Davies, Fred Cooke, and Bradley N. White ................. 177

NEST-SITE SELECTION OF AMERICAN OYSTERCATCHERS (HAEMATOPUS PALLIATUS) IN SALT MARSHES. Brook Lauro and Joanna Burger .................................................................................................................. 185

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PATTERN OF NEST DISTRIBUTION IN THE PIGEON GUILLEMOT (CEPPHUS COLtJMB/). S. K. Emms and N. A.M. Verbeek .......................................................................................................... 193

TESTS OF A MODEL OF FOOD PASSAGE RATES IN HUMMINGBIRDS. Harry M. Tiebout III ...................... 203 NESTING PHENOLOGY AND COMPETITION FOR NEST SITES AMONG RED-HEADED AND RED-BELLIED

WOODPECKERS AND EUROPEAN STARLINGS. Danny J. Ingold ......................................................................... 208 ACTIVITY BUDGETS OF CANADA GEESE DURING BROOD REARING. Lester E. Eberhardt, Gregory G.

Books, Robert G. Anthony, and William H. Rickard ................................................................................................... 218 FINCH FLOCK SIZE AND RISK OF HAWK PREDATION AT A MIGRATORY STOPOVER SITE. ,•ke Lind-

striim ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 225

AUTUMN MIGRATION OF TRANS-SARAHAN MIGRATING PASSERINES IN THE STRAITS OF GI-

BRALTAR. Gudrun Hilgerloh ................................................................................................................................................... 233 GROWTH AND ENERGETICS OF ARCTIC TERN CHICKS (STERNA PARADISAEA). Marcel Klaassen, Claus

Bech, Dirkjan Masman, and Guri Slagsvold .................................................................................................................... 240 GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION AND SEXUAL DIMORPHISM IN THE TREMBLERS (CINCLOCERTHIA) AND

WHITE-BREASTED THRASHER (RAMPHOCINCLUS). Robert W. Storer .............................................................. 249 TERRITORY OVERLAP AND HABITAT USE OF SYMPATRIC CHICKADEES. Brad G. Hill and M. Ross Lein 259

DETERMINATION OF CLUTCH SIZE IN THE LEAST FLYCATCHER. James V. Briskie and Spencer G. Sealy 269 ROLE OF THE PROCTODEAL GLAND FOAM OF MALE JAPANESE QUAIL IN NATURAL COPULA-

TIONS. Kimberly M. Cheng, Andrew R. Hickman, and Cathleen R. Nichols ........................................... 279 PROCTODEAL GLAND FOAM ENHANCES COMPETITIVE FERTILIZATION IN DOMESTIC JAPANESE

QUAIL. Kimberly M. Cheng, Roy F. Mcintyre, and Andrew R. Hickman ................................................ 286 MATE AND NESTLING DESERTION IN COLONIAL LITTLE EGRETS. Masahiro Fujioka ................................... 292 RELATIVE PASSAGE RATES OF LIPID AND AQUEOUS DIGESTA IN THE FORMATION OF STOMACH

OILS. Daniel D. Roby, Karen L. Brink, and Allen R. Place ................................................................................. 303 PTILOCHRONOLOGY: FEATHER GROWTH BARS AS INDICATORS OF NUTRITIONAL STATUS. Thomas C.

Grubb Jr .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 314 IN MEMORIAM: DONALD J. BORROR. Sandra L. L. Gaunt ............................................................................................. 321 SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

Variance in Digestive Efficiencies of Four Sympatric Avian Granivores. Theresa W. Shuman, Robert J. Robel, John L. Zimmerman, and Kenneth E. Kemp .................................................................................................................................................... 324

Evolutionary Genetics of Phalaropes. Donna L. Dittmann, Robert M. Zink, and John A. Gerwin .............................................. 326 Factors Affecting Colony Formation in Leach's Storm-Petrel. Richard H. Podolsky and Stephen W. Kress .......................... 332 Plumage Color Correlates with Body Size in the Ruff (Philomachus pugnax). Jacob H•glund and Arne Lundberg ............... 336 The Grenada Dove (Leptotila wellsO Is a Distinct Species. David E. Blockstein and J. W, Hardy ............................................. 339 Correct Authorship of Pomatostomidae. Walter E. Boles ............................................................................................................... 341

COMMENTARY

Cavity Roosting, Philopatry, and Cooperative Breeding in the Green Woodhoopoe May Not Reflect a Physiological Trait, David Ward, Berry Pinshow, Daniel Afik, Yosef Linder, and Nurit Winklet ................................................................... 342

Response to Ward et al. J. David Ligon, Cynthia Carey, Sandra H. Ligon, and Greg H. Farley ................................................... 343

BOOK REVIEWS. Edited by M. Ross Lein ................................................................................................................................... 345 100 YEARS AGO IN THE AUK .............................................................................................................................................................. 208

WILLIAM BREWSTER MEMORIAL AWARD, 1988. Robert B. Payne ............................................................................. 351 ELLIOTT COUPS AWARD, 1988. Ralph W. Schreiber .......................................................................................................... 352 NOTES AND NEWS ............................................................................................................................................................... 239, 248, 285

NUMBER 3

EFFECT OF PREY CONSUMPTION ON FORAGING ACTIVITY OF NORTHERN HARRIERS. Ethan J. Temeles 353 SEX RATIOS, HOst-SPEcIFIC REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS, AND IMPACT OF BROWN-HEADED

COWBIRDS. Patrick I. Weatherhead .................................................................................................................................... 358 ANNUAL SURVIVAL RATES OF BREEDING ADULT ROSEATE TERNS. Jeffrey A. Spendelow and James

D. Nichols .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 367

AGE AND BREEDING PERFORMANCE OF EUROPEAN BEE=EATERS. C.M. Lessells and J. R. Krebs ........... 375 VARIATION IN NUMBERS OF SCLERAL OSSICLES AND THEIR PHYLOGENETIC TRANSFORMATIONS WITHIN

THE PELECANIFORMES. Kenneth L Warheit, David A. Good, and Kevin de Queiroz ............................ 383 AGE, RESOURCE AVAILABILITY, AND BREEDING EFFORT IN BRANDT'S CORMORANT. Robert J. Boe-

kelheide and David G. Ainley .................................................................................................................................................... 389 WINTERING WOOD THRUSH MOVEMENTS AND MORTALITY IN SOUTHERN VERACRUZ. John H. Rap-

pole, Mario A. Ramos, and Kevin Winker ....................................................................................................................... 402 GENETIC VARIABILITY IN CORY'S SHEARWATER (CALONECTRIS DIOMEDEA ). Ettore Randi, Fernando

Spina, and Bruno Massa ............................................................................................................................................................... 411 CACHE SIZE IN SHRIKES INFLUENCES FEMALE MATE CHOICE AND REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS. Reuven

Yosef and Berry Pinshow ............................................................................................................................................................. 418 THE SYSTEMATIC POSITION OF THE PLANTCUTTERS, PHYTOTOMA. Scott M. Lanyon and Wesley E.

Lanyon .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 422 NATURAL INCUBATION, EGG NEGLECT, AND HATCHABILITY IN THE ANCIENT MURRELET. Anthony

J. Gaston and David W. Powell ............................................................................................................................................... 433 BODY RESERVE AND FOOD USE BY INCUBATING CANADA GEESE. Andrew J. Murphy and David A.

Boag .......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 439 RICHNESS OF BREEDING BIRD SPECIES IN MIXED-CONIFER FORESTS OF THE SIERRA NEVADA, CALI-

œORNIA. Jared Verner and Terry A. Larson ................................................................................................................... 447 IN MEMORIAM: ROBERT JAMES NEWMAN. Frances C. James ....................................................................................... 464 IN MEMORIAM: FRANK B. SMITHE. Dean Amadon ............................................................................................................. 466


Diving Differences between Western and Clark's Grebes. Gary L. Nuechterlein and Deborah P. Buitron .............................. 467 Vocal Behavior of Swinhoe's Storm-Petrel (Oceanodroma monorhis). Miki Taoka, Pyong-Oh Won, and Hiroshi Okumura ... 471 Flight Range Estimates for Shorebirds. Gonzalo Castro and ]. P. Myers ....................................................................................... 474 Impact of Brown-headed Cowbird Parasitism on the Reproductive Success of the Solitary Vireo. Rebecca E. Marvll and

Alexander Cruz .................................................................................................................................................................................. 476

A Comparison of Two Methods of Estimating Breeding Group Size in Harris' Hawks. James W. Dawson and R. William Mannan ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 480

Breeding Opportunities, Foraging Rates, and Parental Care in White-winged Crossbills. Craig W. Benkman .................. 483 An Effective Anti-estrogen for Feral Birds. Alfred M. Duffy Jr ................................................................................................... 485 Implications of Recapture Data for Migration of the Rufous Hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus) in the Rocky Moun-

tains. William A. Calder 11I and Elinor G. Jones ........................................................................................................................ 488 Body-Mass Dependent Fledging Order in the Great Tit. Jonas Lemel ......................................................................................... 490 Genetic Structure and Gene Flow in the Northern Bobwhite. Darrell L. Ellsworth, John L. Roseberry, and W. D. Klim-

stra ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 492

Gull Predation on Cassin's Auklet Varies with the Lunar Cycle. Douglas A. Nelson ............................................................. 495 Sexual Dimorphism of Chatter-calls and Vocal Sex Recognition in Leach's Storm-Petrels (Oceanodroma leucorhoa). Miki

Taoka, Tetsu Sato, Tsutomu Kamada, and Hiroshi Okumura ........................................................................................................... 498 Orientation of Trans-Saharan Passefine Migrants in Southwestern Spain. Gudrun Hilgerloh ............................................... 501 Breeding Biology of the Sunbittern (Eurypyga hellas) in Costa Rica. Bruce E. Lyon and Michael P. L. Fogden ..................... 503

COMMENTARIES

A New Classification of the Living Birds of the World. Ernst Mayr .......................................................................................... 508 Response to E. Mayr. Charles G. Sbley ............................................................................................................................................... 512 Response to E. Mayr. Burr L. Monroe Jr ............................................................................................................................................ 515 Statistical Inference from Color-banding Data. Geoffrey E. Hill and David E. Carr ................................................................... 517 Response to Hill and Cart. John M. Hagan and J. Michael Reed ................................................................................................... 518 Sex Ratios of Fledgling Golden Eagles. Gary R. Bortolotti ............................................................................................................ 520 Sex Ratios of Fledgling Golden Eagles and Jackrabbit Densities. Todd W. Arnold ................................................................ 521 Response to G. R. Bortolotti and T. W. Arnold. Thomas C. Edwards Jr. and Michael W. Collopy ............................................. 523

BOOK REVIEWS. Edited by M. Ross Lein ................................................................................................................................... 525 THIRTY-SEVENTH SUPPLEMENT TO THE AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION CHECK-LIST OF NORTH

AMERICAN BIRDS ............................................................................................................................................................................... 532

100 YEARS AGO IN THE AUK .............................................................................................................................................................. 374

NOTES AND NEWS ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 410

NUMBER 4

VARIABILITY IN TRANSCRIBED REGIONS OF RIBOSOMAL DNA AND EARLY DIVERGENCES IN BIRDS. David

P. Mindell and Rodney L. Honeycutt ................................................................................................................................... 539 Energetics of Reproduction in Female Kestrels. Theo Meijer, Dirkjan Masman, and Serge Daan 549 TERRITORIAL AND NONTERRITORIAL SETTLING IN JUVENILE EURASIAN NUTHATCHES (SITFA EUROPAEA

L.) IN SUMMER. Erik Matthysen .......................................................................................................................................... 560 THE EFFECT OF EXPERIENCE AND TIMING ON REPRODUCTIVE PERFORMANCE IN BUFFLEHEADS. Gilles

Gauthier ................................................................................................................................................................................................... 568

MECHANISMS OF INCREASED PUNCTURE RESISTANCE OF EGGS OF BROWN-I-lEADED COWBIRDS. Jaroslav Picman ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 577

THE EFFECTS OF SITE QUALITY ON BREEDING-SITE FIDELITY IN BOBOLINKS. Eric K. Bollinger and Thomas A. Gavin ............................................................................................................................................................................... 584

PHYLOGENY OF THE CRANES (AvEs: GRUIDAE) AS DEDUCED FROM DNA-DNA HYBRIDIZATION AND ALBU•aN MICRO-COMPLEMENT FIXATION ANALYSES. James L. Ingold, Jack C. Vaughn, Sheldon I. Guttman, and Linda R. Maxson .......................................................................................................................................... 595

PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS AMONG CRANES (GRUIFORMES: GRUIDAE) BASED ON DNA HYBRIDIZATION. Carey Krajewski ....................................................................................................................................... 603

LASTING EFFECTS OF WING TAGS ON RING-BILLED GULLS. Linda K. Kinkel ..................................................... 618

NESTING SUCCESS OF FIVE CICONIIFORM SPECIES IN RELATION TO WATER CONDITIONS IN THE FLORIDA

EVERGLADES. Peter C. Frederick and Michael W. Collopy ................................................................................... 625 EVIDENCE FOR OBLIGATE MALE PARENTAL CARE IN BLACK-BILLED MAGPIES. Peter O. Dunn and

Susan J. Harmon ................................................................................................................................................................................ 635 NATURAL AND SIMULATED ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN SYMPATRIC BLACK-CAPPED CHICKADEES AND

MOUNTAIN CHICKADEES. Brad G. Hill and M. Ross Lein ................................................................................... 645

THE RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF STRESS AND PROGRAMMED ANOREXIA IN DETERMINING MASS LOSS

BY INCUBATING ANCIENT MURRELETS. Anthony J. Gaston and Ian L. Jones .......................................... 653 BEHAVIORAL DIFFERENCES IN NEST VISITS BETWEEN MALE AND FEMALE NORTHERN

MOC•aNGBIRDS. Randall Breitwisch, Natasha Gottlieb, and Julia Zaias ...................................................... 659 THE MEASUREMENT OF OVERALL BODY SIZE IN BIRDS. James D. Rising and Keith M. Somers ............ 666 DIGESTIVE RESPONSES OF TEMPERATE BIRDS SWITCHED TO FRUIT OR INSECT DIETS. Douglas J. Levey

and William H. Karasov ................................................................................................................................................................ 675

PHYSIOLOGICAL BASIS OF STOMACH OIL FORMATION IN LEACH'S STORM-PETREL (OCEANODROMA LEtICORHOA). Allen R. Place, Nina C. Stoyan, Robert Ricklefs, and Ronald G. Butler ........................ 687

ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF HELPING BEHAVIOR IN BIRDS. J. David Ligon and Peter B. Stacey .............. 700 IN MEMORIAM: OLIVER L. AUSTIN JR. Mary H. Clench and J. William Hardy .............................................. 706 IN MEMORIAM: DONALD S. FARNER. James R. King and L. Richard Mewaldt ................................................ 710 IN MEMORIAM: FRANK W. PRESTON. Harold F. Mayfield ............................................................................................ 714 IN MEMORIAM: JAMES BOND. Kenneth C. Parkes ............................................................................................................... 718

IN MEMORIAM: YOSHIMARO YAMASHINA. S. Dillon Ripley ......................................................................................... 721 IN MEMORIAM: NIKOLAAS TINBERGEN. Robert W. Storer .............................................................................................. 722

IN MEMORIAM: KLAUS IMMELMANN. Russell Balda .......................................................................................................... 723


Evaluating Models of Crop Emptying in Hummingbirds. F. Reed Hainsworth ......................................................................... 724 Incubation of Dead Eggs. Daniel Afik and David Ward .................................................................................................................... 726 Himalayan Birds Face Uphill While Singing. Malcolm L. Hunter Jr ........................................................................................... 728 Determinate vs. Indeterminate Laying in the House Sparrow. Ted R. Anderson ..................................................................... 730 Polygyny in the Northern Saw-whet Owl. Jeffrey S. Marks, John H. Doremus, and Richard J. Cannings ................................ 732 Costs to Northern Orioles of Puncture-ejecting Parasitic Cowbird Eggs from their Nests. Sievert Rohwer, Carol D. Spaw,

and Eivin Roskaft ................................................................................................................................................................................. 734 Early Nest Departure Does Not Improve the Survival of Lapland Longspur Chicks. Robert L. McLaughlin and Robert D.

Montgomerie ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 738 Common Ground-Dove's Injury-feigning Distracts Florida Scrub Jay. Jack P. Hailman ......................................................... 742 The Correct Citation and Spelling of Ptiliogonys and Type Locality of Ptiliogonys cinereus. M. Ralph Browning ................ 743 Intensity of Nest Defense in Indigo Buntings Increases with Stage and Not Number of Visits. David F. Westneat ....... 747

COMMENTARY

Consistency in the Scientific Name of the Zebra Finch. N.S. Clayton and T. R Birkhead ....................................................... 750 BOOK REVIEWS. Edited by M. Ross Lein .................................................................................................................................... 751 100 YEARS AGO IN THfi AUK ............................................................................................................................................................... 548 ERRA•3M ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 658

INDEX TO VOLUME 106. Compiled by K. Elizabeth K. Pacala ....................................................................................... 765

SUPPLEMENTS

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTH STATED MEETING ......................................................... 1AA-28AA

RECENT ORNITHOLOGICAL LITERATURE .................................................................. 1A-35A, 1B-69B, 1C-30C, 1D-44D

DATES OF ISSUES OF "THE AUK"

VOL. 106, NO. 1--25 JANUARY 1989

VOL. 106, No. 2--26 APRIL 1989

VOL. 106, NO. 3--25 JULY 1989

VOL. 106, NO. 4--31 OCTOBER 1989

THE AUK A Quarterly Journal of Ornithology PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION

Editor: ALAN H. ]3RUSH, Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, University of Con- necticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06268.

Copy Editor: GAIL W. HUNTER

Associate Editors: FRED E. LOHRER (Periodical Literature), M. Ross LEIN (Book Reviews)

THE AUK welcomes original reports dealing with the biology of birds, emphasizing the docu- mentation, analysis, and interpretation of laboratory and field studies, theoretical or methodological developments, or reviews of existing information or ideas. Contributions are encouraged from throughout the world, but must be written in English.

SUGGESTIONS TO CONTRIBUTORS. Submit the typewritten original and two copies of the text, tables, and all other material to the Editor. Every manuscript must be accompanied by a letter of transmittal (1988, Auk 105: 803). Three copies of illustrations should be submitted. All typewritten material must be double-spaced on one side of numbered 8• x 11 inch (21• x 28 cm) good quality bond paper, with at least 1 inch (2• cm) margins. Originals typed on erasable, light weight, or mimeo bond will not be considered, but copies may be clear reproductions. Number pages through the Literature Cited. Avoid footnotes. The style of manuscripts should conform to general usage in recent issues. A cover page should contain the full title, a shortened version of the title (not to exceed 35 characters in length) for use as a running head, and your address at the time the research was conducted. Your present address, if different, should be given at the bottom of the first text page. The cover page should include the name and full address of the individual to whom proof is to be sent.

Each article should be preceded by an Abstract not exceeding 5% of the length of the paper. The Abstract should recapitulate the findings of the paper, not describe the work done. Acknowledg- ments should follow the text and precede the Literature Cited. Scientific and English names of birds always should be given where first mentioned in the text, and should follow The A.O.U. Check- list of North American Birds and supplements or the appropriate equivalent unless departures are explained and defended. SI metric units should be used in all measurements. In general, abbreviations of statistical terms and mensural units should conform with the Council of Biology Editors' CBE Style Manual, 5th ed. Use the 24-hour clock (0800 and 2030) and "continental" dating (1 July 1971).

Tables, which must not duplicate material in either the text or illustrations, are typewritten (double-spaced throughout!) separately from the text. Each table should contain a short but complete heading, and must not contain vertical rulings. Illustrations (including labels of coordinates) should be on 8• x 11 inch (21•,• x 28 cm) sheets, and must be mailed flat. The name of the author and the figure number should be penciled on the back of each figure. Legends should be typed consecutively (double-spaced) on a separate page. Drawings should be drafted with undiluted india ink, and be large enough to permit % to •6 reduction to the size that they will appear in print. Graphs may be drafted on coordinate paper ruled with light blue lines; do not use coordinate paper ruled with green lines. Use mechanical lettering, pressure transfer letters, or calligraphy; typewritten lettering is not acceptable. Lettering should be large enough to be easily readable after 70% reduction of the figure, but not overly large. Lettering style should be uniform among all figures for a manuscript, as should the size of lettering following reduction. Photographs should be glossy prints of good contrast and sharpness, and should be approximately the same size as they will appear in print. Letters and arrows on photographs are best applied by pressure-sensitive materials. The Auk is published in a double-column format; give careful attention to designing your tables and illustrations accordingly.

Literature citations for all manuscripts are listed (double-spaced!) in a Literature Cited section following the text and Acknowledgments. Text citations should include author and year (e.g. Darwin 1858), or, if more than two authors are involved, the first author and year (Jones et al. 1947). If critical matter is cited or quoted directly from longer works, indicate the pertinent pages (e.g. MacArthur 1972: 204). Citations of two or more works on the same topic should be cited in chronological order (e.g. Meanley 1971, Dyer 1975). For abbreviations and forms of titles of serial publications, follow the BIOSIS List of Serials. Consult recent issues of The Auk and the CBE Style Manual for additional details.

A more detailed set of instructions for contributors appeared in The Auk, Vol. 105, No. 1 (January 1988}, copies of which are available from the Editor.

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