Contents
Estimating Nest Success: the Mayfield Method and an Alternative
Douglas H. Johnson
Reproductive Success of Peregrine Falcons and Other Raptors at Wager Bay and Melville Peninsula Northwest Territories
George W. Calef and Douglas C. Heard
Nest-site Competition Between Adelie and Chinstrap Penguins: an Ecological Interpretation
Wayne Trivelpiece and Nicholas J. Volkman
The Effect of Permanent Short Days and Castration on Plumage and Comb Growth in Male Willow Ptarmigan (lagopus Lagopus)
Karl-arne Stokkan
Notes and News
The Auk
Recognition of Neighbors by Associative Learning in Rufous-sided Towhees
Douglas G. Richards
A Quantitative Study of the Behavior of Breeding American Coots
Mark R. Ryan and James J. Dinsmore
Flock Stability in Relation to Social Dominance and Agonistic Behavior in Wintering Dark-eyed Juncos
Martha Hatch Balph
Breeding and Feeding of Gal
P. R. Grant and Nicola Grant
Feeding Ecology and Development of Juvenile Black Ducks in Maine
Kenneth J. Reinecke
Bird Egg Collections in North America
Lloyd F. Kiff
Index to Volume 96
The Auk
Priorities in Bird Migration Studies
Sidney A. Gauthreaux Jr.
Human Disturbance and Breeding Birds
David C. Duffy
Author's Response
Laurence N. Ellison
Nest-site Competition Between Red-winged Blackbirds and Great-tailed Grackles
James T. Rutledge and Randall S. Chandler
An Attempt to Determine the Prey of the Great Auk (pinguinus Impennis)
Storrs L. Olson, Camm C. Swift, and Carmine Mokhiber
Tufted Puffins Nesting in Estuarine Habitat
Robert Gill Jr. and Gerald A. Sanger
Annual Weight Cycle in Wild Screech Owls
Charles J. Henny and Laurel F. Vancamp
Nest Desertion by the Pi
L. Clark and Diana J. Gabaldon
The Impact of Loggerhead Shrikes on Nesting Birds in a Sagebrush Environment
Timothy D. Reynolds
A Bill Color Polymorphism in Young Darwin's Finches
P. R. Grant, P. T. Boag, and D. Schluter
Effects of Vegetation on Nesting Success of Vesper Sparrows
Thomas Wray II and Robert C. Whitmore
Age Differences in Ring-billed Gull Kleptoparasitism on Starlings
Joanna Burger and Michael Gochfeld
Club-tipped Feathers in Some South American Tanagers
Richard C. Innes
A Field Study of the Effect of Crude Oil on Herring Gull (larus Argentatus) Chick Growth
Ronald G. Butler and Peter Lukasiewicz
Covers
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Back Matter
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