Contents
Some Effects of Weather on Purple Martin Activity
J. Campbell Finlay
Behavioral Adaptations of the Verdin to the Desert
George T. Austin
Aleutian Island Albatrosses: a Population History
David R. Yesner
The Effects of a Tall Tower on Nocturnal Bird Migration--a Portable Ceilometer Study
Michael Avery, Paul F. Springer, and J. Frank Cassel
Nest Guarding Behavior by Male Gray Catbirds
R. Douglas Slack
Exploitation of Fluctuating Food Resources by Western Gulls
George L. Hunt Jr. and Molly W. Hunt
Functional Syringeal Anatomy of the Mallard I in Situ Electromyograms during Esb Elicited Calling
F. Russell Lockner and Orlan M. Youngren
Reproductive Rate and Temporal Spacing of Nesting of Red-winged Blackbirds in Upland Habitat
Richard A. Dolbeer
Avian Distribution Patterns in Forest Islands of Different Sizes in Central New Jersey
Anne E. Galli, Charles F. Leck, and Richard T. T. Forman
In Memoriam: George Elford Hudson
James R. King
Notes and News
The Auk
General Notes
Body-bobbing Woodcocks
C. Brooke Worth
Spread-wing Sunbathing by Juvenile White-faced Ibis
James A. Rodgers Jr.
Plain Chachalaca Food Habits in South Texas
Wayne R. Marion
The Common Snipe in Surinam
F. Haverschmidt
Notes on the Long-billed Curlew in Saskatchewan
Douglas A. R. Sadler and W. J. Maher
Countershading on the Feet and Legs of the Common Loon
Jerome A. Jackson
Bald Eagles Soaring into Opaque Cloud
Christopher Servheen
On Flight Pursuits in Wintering Dark-eyed Juncos
Martha Hatch Balph and David F. Balph
Additional Records of Mountain White-crowned Sparrows Parasitized by the Brown-headed Cowbird
J. R. King, S. A. Mahoney, C. S. Maxwell, and L. R. Mewaldt
Golden Eagle Preys on Osprey
A. Richard Lafontaine and Janet H. Fowler
Herons Catch Two Fish in One Strike
David E. Willard
Possible Intermediate Ross' Goose and Snow Goose in Manitoba
David R. M. Hatch and Angus H. Shortt
Covers
Front Matter
The Auk
Back Matter
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