Contents
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
Nest-site Selection of American Oystercatchers (haematopus Palliatus) in Salt Marshes
Brook Lauro and Joanna Burger
Significance of the Pattern of Nest Distribution in the Pigeon Guillemot (cepphus Columba)
S. K. Emms and N. A. M. Verbeek
Tests of a Model of Food Passage Rates in Hummingbirds
Harry M. Tiebout III
100 Years Ago in the Auk
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Nesting Phenology and Competition for Nest Sites among Red-headed and Red-bellied Woodpeckers and European Starlings
Danny J. Ingold
Activity Budgets of Canada Geese during Brood Rearing
Lester E. Eberhardt, Gregory G. Books, Robert G. Anthony, and William H. Rickard
Notes and News
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Growth and Energetics of Arctic Tern Chicks (sterna Paradisaea)
Marcel Klaassen, Claus Bech, Dirkjan Masman, and Guri Slagsvold
Geographic Variation and Sexual Dimorphism in the Tremblers (cinclocerthia) and White-breasted Thrasher (ramphocinclus)
Robert W. Storer
Territory Overlap and Habitat Use of Sympatric Chickadees
Brad G. Hill and M. Ross Lein
Determination of Clutch Size in the Least Flycatcher
James V. Briskie and Spencer G. Sealy
Role of the Proctodeal Gland Foam of Male Japanese Quail in Natural Copulations
Kimberly M. Hickman and Cathleen R. Nichols
Proctodeal Gland Foam Enhances Competitive Fertilization in Domestic Japanese Quail
Kimberly M. Cheng and Roy F. Hickman
Mate and Nestling Desertion in Colonial Little Egrets
Masahiro Fujioka
Relative Passage Rates of Lipid and Aqueous Digesta in the Formation of Stomach Oils
Daniel D. Roby, Karen L. Brink, and Allen R. Place
Ptilochronology: Feather Growth Bars as Indicators of Nutritional Status
Thomas C. Grubb Jr.
In Memoriam: Donald J Borror
Sandra L. L. Gaunt
Elliott Coues Award, 1988
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Covers
Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Short Communications
Variance in Digestive Efficiencies of Four Sympatric Avian Granivores
Theresa W. Shuman, Robert J. Robel, John L. Zimmerman, and Kenneth E. Kemp
Evolutionary Genetics of Phalaropes
Donna L. Dittmann, Robert M. Zink, and John A. Gerwin
Factors Affecting Colony Formation in Leach's Storm-petrel
Richard H. Podolsky and Stephen W. Kress
The Grenada Dove (leptotila Wellsi) is a Distinct Species
David E. Blockstein and J. W. Hardy
Correct Authorship of Pomatostomidae
Walter E. Boles
Commentaries
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 Winkler
Response to Ward Et Al
J. David Ligon, Cynthia Carey, Sandra H. Ligon, and Greg H. Farley