Bird vocalizations
Subtitle: their relations to current problems in biology and psychology; essays presented to W. H. Thorpe
By: edited by R. A. Hinde.
Contributors: Thorpe, W. H. 1902-; Hinde, Robert A., ed.
Publisher: Cambridge U.P.
Published: 1969
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
Subjects: Birdsongs; Birds -- Vocalization
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Foreward, by K. Z. Lorenz.; title: Tonal quality of bird sounds, by P. Marler.; title: Experimental studies in the ontogeny of avian vocalizations, by M. Konishi and F. Nottebohm.; title: Song as a reinforcer, by J. G. Stevenson.; title: Song development in the zebra finch and other Estrildid finches, by K. Immelmann.; title: The control of avian vocalization by the central nervous system, by J. L. Brown; title: The effects of testosterone on avian vocalizations, by R. J. Andrew.; title: Roles of budgerigar vocalization in the integration of breeding behaviour, by B. F. Brockway.; title: Communication in canary courtship calls, by J. A. Mulligan and K. C. Olsen.; title: Duetting, by T. Hooker and B. I. Hooker (Lade).; title: Functions of territorial song in the white-throated sparrow, by J. B. Falls.; title: Embryonic communication, respiration and the synchronization of hatching, by M. A. Vince.; title: Functional and ecological aspects of vocalization in weaverbirds, by J. H. Crook.; title: Vocal characters and avian systematics, by W. E. Lanyon.; title: Geographic variation in bird vocalizations, by G. Thielcke.; title: Aspects of the evolution of man's appreciation of bird song, by E. A. Armstrong.; title: The aesthetic content of bird song, by J. Hall-Craggs.