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The Auk
Short Communications
Mitochondrial Perspective on the Phylogenetic Relationships of the Parula Wood-warblers
Irby J. Lovette and Eldredge Bermingham
Genetic Monogamy in Carolina Wrens (thryothorus Ludovicianus)
Thomas M. Haggerty, Eugene S. Morton, and Robert C. Fleischer
Does Red-cockaded Woodpecker Excavation of Resin Wells Increase Risk of Bark Beetle Infestation of Cavity Trees?
Richard N. Conner, Daniel Saenz, D. Craig Rudolph, William G. Ross, David L. Kulhavy, and Robert N. Coulson
Effects of Forest Harvesting on Nest Predation in Cavity-nesting Waterfowl
Johanna P. Pierre, Heather Bears, and Cynthia A. Paszkowski
Anomalous Variation in Mitochondrial Genomes of White-crowned (zonotrichia Leucophrys) and Golden-crowned (z Atricapilla) Sparrows: Pseudogenes, Hybridization, or Incomplete Lineage Sorting?
Jason D. Weckstein, Robert M. Zink, Rachelle C. Blackwell-Rago, and Douglas A. Nelson
Relationship of Songbird Nest Concealment to Nest Fate and Flushing Behavior of Adults
Dirk E. Burhans and Frank R. Thompson III
Genetic Monogamy in Wilson's Storm-petrel
Petra Quillfeldt, Tim Schmoll, Hans-Ulrich Peter, Jorg Thomas Epplen, and Thomas Lubjuhn
Adenylate Kinase Intron 5: a New Nuclear Locus for Avian Systematics
Leo H. Shapiro and John P. Dumbacher
Commentaries
House Finches Are Not Just what They Eat: a Reply to Hill
Sherie N. Zahn and Stephen I. Rothstein
Overview
Recent Advances in Grassland Bird Research: Where Do We Go from Here?
Peter D. Vickery and James R. Herkert
Articles
Linking Breeding and Wintering Grounds of Bicknell's Thrushes Using Stable Isotope Analyses of Feathers
Keith A. Hobson, Kent P. Mcfarland, Leonard I. Wassenaar, Christopher C. Rimmer, and James E. Goetz
Area Requirements of Grassland Birds: a Regional Perspective
Douglas H. Johnson and Lawrence D. Igl
Molecular Systematics and Biogeography of Antillean Thrashers, Tremblers, and Mockingbirds (aves: Mimidae)
Jeffrey S. Hunt, Eldredge Bermingham, and Robert E. Ricklefs
A Cryptic New Species of Flycatcher (tyrannidae: Suiriri) from the Cerrado Region of Central South America
Kevin J. Whittaker and David C. Oren
Patterns of Corticosterone Secretion in Migrating Semipalmated Sandpipers at a Major Spring Stopover Site
David S. Mizrahi, Rebecca L. Holberton, and Sidney A. Gauthreaux Jr.
Consequences of Dominance-mediated Habitat Segregation in American Redstarts during the Nonbreeding Season
Peter P. Marra and Richard T. Holmes
Predator Responses to Similarity and Dispersion of Artificial Nest Sites: Implications for the Structure of Boreal Forest Songbird Communities
Sheila A. Rangen, Robert G. Clark, and Keith A. Hobson
Nestling Growth and Thermoregulatory Development in Subalpine Dusky Flycatchers
Maria Elena Pereyra and Martin L. Morton
Dispersal Pattern of Black-billed Magpies (pica Hudsonia) Measured by Molecular Genetic (rapd) Analysis
Xiao-Hong Wang and Charles H. Trost
No Evidence for Effects of Breeding Density and Male Removal on Extrapair Paternity in the Pied Flycatcher
Osmo Raetti, Arne Lundberg, Hakan Tegelstrom, and Rauno V. Alatalo
Demography of Brown-headed Cowbirds at Delta Marsh, Manitoba
Bonnie E. Woolfenden, H. Lisle Gibbs, and Spencer G. Sealy
Sexual Selection and Tail-length Dimorphism in Scissor-tailed Flycatchers
Jonathan V. Regosin and Stephen Pruett-Jones
Variation in Growth of Nestling Tree Swallows across Multiple Temporal and Spatial Scales
John P. Mccarty
Comparison of the Reproductive Biology of Two Neotropical Wrens in an Unpredictable Environment in Northeastern Colombia
Jorge A. Ahumada
Addendum
Perspectives In Ornithology
Delayed Dispersal: Living under the Reign of Nepotistic Parents
Jan Ekman, Vittorio Baglione, Sonke Eggers, and Michael Griesser