Contents
Allozymic Correlates of Dominance Rank in Sparrows
Robert M. Zink and Doris J. Watt
Foraging Behavior of Northern Harriers Wintering in Southeastern Salt and Freshwater Marshes
Michael W. Collopy and Keith L. Bildstein
Notes and News
The Auk
Sex Ratios of Prefledging Western Gulls
James R. Sayce and George L. Hunt Jr.
Determinants of Great Blue Heron Colony Distribution in Coastal Maine
James P. Gibbs, Susan Woodward, Malcolm L. Hunter, and Alan E. Hutchinson
Ecology and Behavior of the Buff-tailed Sicklebill (paradisaeidae: Epimachus Albertisi)
Bruce M. Beehler
Breeding and Nonbreeding Season Mortality of Territorial Male Red-winged Blackbirds (agelaius Phoeniceus)
Ken Yasukawa
100 Years Ago in the Auk
The Auk
Use of Song Repertoires among Marsh Wren Populations
Donald E. Kroodsma and Jared Verner
Lek Organization in Sage Grouse: Variations on a Territorial Theme
R. M. Gibson and J. W. Bradbury
Successive Nesting and Autumnal Breeding in Harris' Hawks
James C. Bednarz
Phylogeny of Herons Estimated from Dna-dna Hybridization Data
Frederick H. Sheldon
Unrepeatable Repeatabilities: a Common Mistake
C. M. Lessells and Peter T. Boag
In Memoriam: Joel Carl Welty, 1901-1986
Ken Yasukawa
Covers
Front Matter
The Auk
Back Matter
The Auk
Short Communications
Ocean Internal Waves as Sources of Small-scale Patchiness in Seabird Distribution on the Blake Plateau
J. Christopher Haney
Do Male Hooded Warblers Exclude Females from Nonbreeding Territories in Tropical Forest?
Eugene S. Morton, James F. Lynch, Kimberley Young, and Patricia Mehlhop
A New Technique for Releasing Migrants from Orientation Cages
Kenneth P. Able and Scott B. Terrill
Commentaries
The Water Repellency of Water-bird Feathers
Arie M. Rijke
Response to Am Rijke
A. Margaret Elowson