Recent studies in avian biology.
By: Contributors: David E. Davis [and others]
Contributors: Davis, David Edward.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1955
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 479
Subjects: Ornithology.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Concepts and problems of avian systematics in relation to evolutionary processes, by A.H. Miller.; title: Recent revisions in classification and their biological significance, by H. Friedmann.; title: Paleontology, by A. Wetmore.; title: Avian anatomy, 1925-1950, and some suggested problems, by H.I. Fisher.; title: The study of behavior in birds, by J.T. Emlen, Jr.; title: Bird navigation, by D.R. Griffin.; title: The annual stimulus for migration: experimental and physiologic aspects, by D.S. Farner.; title: Direct studies of nocturnal bird migration, by G.H. Lowery, Jr., and R.J. Newman.; title: Breeding biology of birds, by D.E. Davis.; title: Recent advances in knowledge concerning the role of hormones in the sex differentiation of birds, by L.V. Domm.; title: Some American population research on gallinaceous birds, by J.J. Hickey.; title: Birdbanding in the study of population dynamics, by D.S. Farner.; title: Diseases of birds, by C.M. Herman.