Contents
Color Variation in the Soft Parts and Down of Royal Tern Chicks
P. A. Buckley and F. G. Buckley
In Memoriam: Herbert Girton Deignan
Herbert Friedmann
Relationships Between Two Partly Sympatric Species of Thrushes (catharus) in Mexico
Ralph J. Raitt and John William Hardy
Song Variation in a Population of Indigo Buntings
William L. Thompson
Ecological and Anatomical Adaptations of North American Tree Ducks
M. Kent Rylander and Eric G. Bolen
Bathing Behavior of Land Birds
M. Slessers
Summer Lipid Levels of Some Subarctic Birds
Charles G. Yarbrough
Mating Behavior of the Common Loon
D. Jean Tate and James Tate Jr.
Proceedings of the Eighty-seventh Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union
L. Richard Mewaldt
Periodical Literature
The Auk
Correspondence
The Auk
Notes and News
The Auk
General Notes
Foraging Behavior in the Blue Flycatcher
John P. Hubbard and Claudia L. Hubbard
Spring Departure of Sandhill Cranes from Northern Florida
Lovett E. Williams Jr.
Flightlessness in Sandhill Cranes
Carroll D. Littlefield
Organochlorine Pesticide Residues in Whooping Cranes and Everglade Kites
Thair Lamont and William Reichel
Nesting of the Sooty Tern in Louisiana
Robert D. Purrington
Shorebirds Leaving the Water to Defecate
Hervey Brackbill
Water Balance of the Oregon Junco
Stanley H. Anderson
An Excessively Large but Unfinished Starling Nest
Paul A. Stewart and J. P. B. Connell
Head-scratching Method of the Swainson's Warbler
Brooke Meanley
Feeding Interactions of Snowy Egrets and Red-breasted Mergansers
Stephen T. Emlen and Harrison W. Ambrose III
Records of the Brambling in North America
Richard C. Banks
The Nest of the Red-breasted Blackbird
F. Haverschmidt
A New Subspecies of Meleagris Gallopavo
A. W. Schorger
Proximal Nesting of Harris' Hawk and Great Horned Owl
Howard Freemyer and Sue Freemyer
First Nesting of the Wheatear in Western Hudson Bay, Canada
M. Ross Lein and William J. Maher
A Ruffed Grouse with an Abnormal Bill
Richard S. Stott
Abnormal Bill of a Western Meadowlark, Sturnella N Neglecta
Steven W. Carothers and Russell P. Balda
Covers
Front Matter
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Back Matter
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