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CONTENTS OF VOLUME 93

NUMBER 1

HOMING SUCCESS IN WINTERING SPARROWS. C. John Ralph and L. Richard Mewaldt ........................................................................ 1

WINTER FORAGING AND ASSOCIATED BEHAVIOR OF PILEATED WOOD-

PECKERS IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA. Lawrence Kilham ........... 15

SONG MIMICRY AND SPECIES RELATIONSHIPS AMONG THE WEST

AFroCAN PALEWINGED INDIGOBIRDS. Robert B. Payne .......... 25 DISTRIBUTION• ECOLOGY, AND BREEDING BIOLOGY OF THE RUFOUS-

THROATED SOLITAIRE IN JAMAICA. Alexander Cruz ............... 39 ORGANIC MATERIAL AND CALORIES IN LAUGHING GULL EGGS.

Ralph W. Schreiber and John M. Lawrence ..................... 46 AVIFAUNA OF THE Rio CORNA, TAMAULIPAS, MEXICO: NORTH-

EASTERN LIMIT OF THE TROPICS. Frederick R. Gehlbach, David O. Dillon, Herschel L. Harrell, Stephen E. Kennedy, and Kay R. Wilson ..................................................................... 53

SYSTEMATIC REVIEW• INTERGRADATION• AND CLINAL VARIATION IN CLIFF SWALLOWS. William H. Bekle ................................. 66

MIGRATIONAL OIIIENTATION IN RING-BILLED GULL CHICKS. William

E. Southern .................................................................. 78

FEEDING BEHAVIOR OF NORTH AM•ERICAN HERONS. James A. Kushlan 86

ECOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF DOMINANCE HIERARCHIES IN BLACK-CAPPED

CHICKADEES. Susan M. Smith ..................................... 95

CHANGES IN THE BREEDING RANGES OF TWO GRASSLAND BIRDS.

Robert J. Hurley and Edwin C. Franks ......................... 108 COMPARATIVE MOBBING BEHAVIOR OF SCRUB AND MEXICAN JAYs.

Jack F. Cully, Jr., and J. David Ligon ................................ 116 BIRD COLLECTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA: ADDENDA

AND CORRIGENDA. Mary H. Clench, Richard C. Banks, and Jori C. Barlow ............................................................. 126

IN MEMORIAM: ALEXANDER SPRUNT, JR. Carl W. Buchheister ___ 130 NESTING AND PARENTAL BEHAVIOR IN DOMESTIC COMMON QUAIL.

F. Scott Orcutt, Jr., and Adrienne B. Orcutt .............................. 135 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NINETY-THIRD STATED MEETING OF THE

AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION. George E. Watson, Secretary ............................................................. 142

GENERAL NOTES

Population growth in the Cattle Egret. Carl E. Bock and Larry W. Lepthien 164 Food fluctuations and multiple clutches in the Mountain Plover. Walte•

D. Graul ........................................... 166

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Cape May Warblers in Middle America. C. Russell Mason ............. 167 Morphology of the bony stapes in Philepitta and Neodrepanis: New evi-

dence for suboscine affinities. Alan Feduccia ................................ 169 Behavioral evidence on skimmers' evolutionary relationships. Harold F.

Sears, Lynn J. Moseley, and Helmut C. Mueller ............................ 170 The effects of water restriction on renal mucoid materials in Columba livia.

F. M. Anne McNabb and Roger A. McNabb ............................ 175 Band-tailed Gull photographed in Florida. Clark S. O•son .............. 176 Absence of "individual distance" in three swallow species. W. Roger

Meservey and George F. Kraus ..................................................... 177 Migrant Golden-winged Warbler with a bivalent repertoire. Keith B.

Russell ........................................................................................ 178 Growth and fledging age of Sooty Tern chicks. William Y. Brown ........... 179 First breeding record of Bewick's Wren in New York State. Daniel Smiley

and )'ames Stapleton ..................................................... 183 The chemical composition of the ovary, oviduct, and follicles of the

Starling. Robert E. Rickle], .......................................... 184 Accipiter poliogaster from Peru, and remarks on two collecting localities

named "Sarayacu." Marion Anne Jenkinson and Merlin D. Tuttle ........ 187 Aimophila strigiceps new to Paraguay. Lester L. Short .......................... 189 Variation in Oldsquaw rectrix numbers. Steven R. Peterson .............. 190 Reevaluation of "activity clustering" by male grouse. Gordon W. Gullion __ 192 Notes on the Sickle-winged Guan in Colombia. Terry B. Johnson and

Steven Arilty ............................................................................ 194

Juvenile Little Blue Herons try to secure food from adult Louisiana Herons. James A. Rodgers, Jr ....................................................... 195

A Washington record of the Boreal Owl. Richard E. Johnson and George E. Hudson .......................................................................................................... 195

REVIEWS. Edited by Walter Bock .......................................................... 197 OBITUARIES ............................................................................................... 210

ERRATA AND ADDENDA ............................................................................. 213

NOTES AND NEWS ................................................................................... 213

NUMBER 2

BREEDING DISTRIBUTION OF NASHVILLE AND VIRGINIANS WARBLERS.

Ned K. Johnson .................................................................. 219

SOME EFFECTS OF WEATHER ON PURPLE MARTIN ACTIVITY. J.

Campbell Finlay ........................................................................ 231 BEHAVIORAL ADAPTATIONS OE THE VERDIN TO THE DESERT. George

T. Austin ....................................................... 245

ALEUTIAN ISLAND ALBATROSSES: A POPULATION HISTORY. David

R. Yesnet .................................................................................... 263

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THE EEFECTS OE A TALL TOWER ON NOCTURNAL BIRD MmRATION--A

PORTABLE CEILOMETER STUDY. Michael Avery, Paul F. Springer, and J. Frank Cassel ........................................................................ 281

NEST GUARDING BEHAVIOR BY MALE GRAY CATBIRDS. R. Douglas Slack ................................................................................................. 292

EXPLOITATION OF FLUCTUATING FOOD RESOURCES BY WESTERN

GULLS. George L. Hunt, Jr. and Molly W. Hunt ........................ 301 DAILY A>qr> SEASONAL ACTIVITY PATTERNS IN BREEDING LAUGHING

GULLS. Joanna Burger .................................................................. 308 FUNCTIONAL SYRINGEAL ANATOMY OF THE MALLARD. I. IN $1TU

ELECTROMYOORAMS DURING ESB ELICITED CALLING. F. Russell

Lockner and Orlan M. Youngren ..................................................... 324 REPRODUCTIVE RATE AND TEMPORAL SPACING OF NESTING OF RED-

WINGED BLACKBIRDS •N UPLAND HABITAT. Richard A. Dolbeer 343

AVIAN DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS IN FOREST ISLANDS OF DIFFERENT

SizEs •N CENTRAL NEw JERSEY. Anne E. Galli, Charles F. Leck, and Richard T. T. Forman ............................................................. 356

IN MEMORIA•Vr: GEOROE ELEORD HUDSON. James R. King ................ 365

GENERAL NOTES

Egg specific gravity and incubation in the Sooty Tern and Brown Noddy. William Y. Brown .................................................................................. 371

Body-bobbing woodcocks. C. Brooke Worth .................................................. 374 Spread-wing sunbathing by juvenile White-faced Ibis. James A. Rodgers, Jr. 375 Plain Chachalaca food habits in south Texas. Wayne R. Marion .............. 376 The Common Snipe in Surinam. F. ttaverschmidt ................................. 379 Observations on the Yellow-eared Toucanet. Steve West .......................... 381 Notes on the Long-billed Curlew in Saskatchewan. Douglas A. R. Sadler

and W. J. Maher ................................................................................................ 382 Countershading on the feet and legs of the Common Loon. Jerome A.

Jackson ............................................................................................... 384 Bald Eagles soaring into opaque cloud. Christopher Servheen ....................... 387 On flight pursuits in wintering Dark-eyed Juncos. Martha Ilatch Balph

and David F. Balph ........................................................................... 388 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 ............................................................................. 389

Golden Eagle preys on Osprey. A. Richard Lafontaine and Janet tt. Fowler 390 Herons catch two fish in one strike. David E. Willard ........................... 391 Possible intermediate Ross' Goose and Snow Goose in Manitoba. David

R. M. Ilatch and Angus tt. Shortt ..................................................... 391

REviEws. Edited by Walter Bock ......................................................... 393 NOTES AND NEws .................................................................................... 409

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NUMBER 3

A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF NINE-PRIMARIED OSCINE OF UNCER-

TAIN AFFINITIES FROM PERU. George 1t. Lowery, Jr. and Dan A. Tallman ....................................................................... 415

M. •I.•or•B•AI.•S MED•AI.•S AND A REVIEW OF THE M.

COMPLEX IN FLAMINGOS. James C. Vanden Berge ................ 429 ABNORMAL CHICKS AND PCB RESIDUE LEVELS IN EGGS OF COLONIAL

BiRDs ON THE LOWER Gm•AT LAKES (1971--73). Michael Gilbertson, Ralph D. Morris, and Roger A. 11unter ................ 434

A CASE OF BIGA•Z IN THE FLORIDA SCRUB JAY. Glen E. Woolfenden 443 VOCAI, IZATIONS OF THE BOREAL CHICKADEE. Margaret A. McLaren _ 451 WADING BIRD PREDATION IN A SEASONALLY FLUCTUATING POND.

James A. Kushlan ..................................................................... 464

TERRITORY; BREEDING DENSITY• AND FALL DEPARTURE IN CASSIN•S FINCH. Fred B. Samson ........................................................... 477

COWBIRD PARASITISM OF THE CEDAR WAXWING AND ITS EVOLU-

TIONARY IMPLICATIONS. Stephen I. Rothstein ...................... 498 BURROWING OWLS WINTERING IN THE OKLAHOMA PANHANDLE.

Kenneth O. Butts ................................................... 510

NESTINO MORTALITY IN THE RED-WINOED BLACKBIRD. Donald F. Caccamise .................................................................. 517

RENESTING BY THE BLACK-BELLED WHISTLING DUCK. Don Delnicki

and Eric G. Bolen ........................................................ 535

AVIAN POPULATIONS IN HERBICIDE TREATED BRUSH FIELDS. Donald L. Beaver ........................................................................ 543

ANGLE OF CANADA GOOSE V FLIGHT FORMATION MEASURED BY

RADAR. Timothy C. Williams, Thomas J. Klonowski, and Philip Berkdey ..................................................................... 554

SOCIAL ORGANIZATION IN RUDDY AND MACCOA DUCKS. W. Roy Siegfried ............................................................................ 560

BREEDING BIRD USE OF A P•NYON-JUNIPER-PoNDEROSA PINE ECO- TONE. William F. Laudenslayer, Jr. and Russell P. Balda .... 571

OSTEOI,OGICAL EVIDENCE FOR SHOREBIRD AFFINITIES OF THE FLA•nNGOS. Alan Feduccia ................................... 587

GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION IN THE CLUTCH SIZES OF SEVEN OWL

SPEcms. Gale A. Murray ................................................. 602 THERMAl. ADAPTIVENESS OF PLUMAGE COLOR IN SCREECH OWLS.

James A. Mosher and Charles J. Henny ........................ 614 IN MEMORIAM: CHARLES VAURXE. Lester L. Short .................. 620

GENERAL NOTES

Brown Noddy incubation shifts. William Y. Brown ........................ 626

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Avian nesting success under gamma radiation exposure. Richard R. BEech 627 Nocturnal predation by a Black-crowned Night Heron at a Common Tern

colony. Rodger ,4. Hunter and Ralph D. Morris ........................................ 629 The affinities of the falconid genus Spiziapteryx. Storrs L. Olson ................ 633 California Condors soaring into opaque clouds. John C. Borneman ............ 636 Feeding segregation in the Arctic and Common Terns in southern Finland.

Risto Lemmetyinen ...................................... 636 Fishing behavior of Common Grackles. Steven J. Zottoli ....................... 640 Occurrences of duck hybrids at James Bay. R. M. ,41ison and J.P. Prevett 643 An unusual foraging behavior of Tree Sparrows. Peter Goldman .................... 644 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher breeding in southwestern Indiana. David Howell

and Ed TheroJ! .......................................................... 644 An addition to two Florida Pleistocene avifaunas. David W. Steadman .... 645

Plumage aberrancy in Blue-winged Teal. David L. Trauger ........................ 646 On the Status of Buteo nitidES in New Mexico. Dale ,4. Zimmerman ............ 650 Western Flycatcher in Oklahoma. John S. Weske ............................................ 655 First breeding records of Wilson's Phalarope for James Bay, Ontario.

R. 1. G. Morrison and T. H. Manning .................................................. 656 Female ptarmigan reoccupying nest site. R. M. ,4lison ......................... 657

REVIEWS. Edited by Walter Bock .................................................. 658 OBITUARY ............................................................................................. 665

NOTES AND NEWS ....................................................................... 666

NUMBER 4

DIRECTION OF THE PRECEDING RELEASE AND INITIAL ORIENTATION

OF HOMING PIGEONS. Klaus Schmidt-Koenig ......................... 669 EXPERIMENTS ON I)EFENSES CEDAR WAXWINGS USE AGAINST COW-

BIRD PARASITISM. Stephen I. Rothstein .................................... 675 EFFECTS OF A Low-PERsISTENCE INSECTICIDE ON FOREST BIRD POP-

ULATIONS. Jonathan D. Moulding ................................................. 692 COURTSHIP AND PAIR FORMATION IN THE GREAT EGRET. Jochen H.

Wiese .............................................................................................. 709

HOUSE FINCH PIGMENTATION: CAROTENOID METABOLISM AND THE

EFFECT OF DIET. Alan H. Brush and Dennis M. Power ........ 725

AMERICAN KESTREL SEX RATIOS AND HABITAT SEPARATION. G. Scott

Mills ........................................................................... 740

ANATOMY OF THE MIDDLE EAR REGION OF THE AVlAN SKULL:

SPHENISCIFORMES. Edward Sai// .............................................. 749 VOCAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN AMERICAN LEAST TERNS AND THE

EUROPEAN LITTLE TERN. Barbara W. Massey ........... 760 PELVIC APPENDAGE MYOLOGY OF THE HAWAIIAN HONEYCREEPERS

(DREPANIDIDAE). Robert J. Raikow ........... 774

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COMPARATIVE DISPLAYS or YEARLING AND ADULT MALE WOOD

DucKs. Carl E. Korschgen and Leigh H. Fredrickson ............. 793 SPRING DRUMMING PATTERNS OF RUFFED GROUSE. Herbert L.

Archibald ....................................................................................... 808

GENERAL NOTES

A note on the prehistoric avifauna of the Lower Klamath Basin. Donald K. Grayson ................................................................................................ 830

Common Goldeneyes hatching from cracked eggs. Harry G. Luresden and Robert Wenting .................................................................................. 833

Banded northern Bald Eagles in Florida and other southern states. Sergei Postupalsky ........................................................................................ 835

Nest site competition between Mountain Chickadees and Violet-green Swallows. Kathleen E. Franzreb ............................................................... 836

Connecticut House Sparrows nesting in December. Tom Tessels .............. 837 Bahama Woodstar in Florida: first specimen for continental North

America. Oscar T. Owre ................................................................................. 837 Possible cannibalism in Swainson's Hawk. Wayne R. Pilz .................... 838 First record of Smith's Longspur in New York. Thomas H. Davis ........... 838 Snowy Owl steals prey from Marsh Hawk. David C. Dully, Bruce Beehler,

and William Haas ........................................................................... 839 A possible reason for mimicry of a bird-eating hawk by an insect-eating kite.

Edwin O. Willis .......................................................................... 841 Use of gravel by Purple Martins. Charles R. Brown ...................................... 842 Nesting Bald Eagles attack researcher. Teryl G. Grubb ...... 842 The status of Sayornis saya yukonensis Bishop. M. Ralph Browning .... 843 A definite Colorado breeding record for the Harlequin Duck. Kenneth

C. Parkes and Colleen Helgeson Nelson .................................................. 846

SPECIAL REVIEW: GREENEWALT ON BIRO FLIGHT. Vance A. Tucker 848

REVIEWS. Edited by Walter Bock ............................................... 855 NOTES AND NEWS ...................................................................... 870

THIRTY-THIRD SUPPLEMENT TO THE AMERICAN ORNITI-IOLOGISTS •

UNION CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS .................. 875

INDEX TO VOLUME 93. Compiled by James J. Dinsmore .............. 880

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DmEcrIoN oF THE PRECEDrsc RELF•SE AND INITIAL ORIENTATION OF HOMrSC PICEO•S. Klaus Schmidt-Koenig ......................................................... 669

E•E•S ON DE•NSES C• W•CS •SE AC•ST Co• P•M. Stephen 1. Rothst•n 675

E•cvs o• • Low-P•ss•cz I•c•c• o• Fo•v B• Po•vm•s. Jonathan D. Moulding .............................................................................. 692

Co•vs• • Pain Fobnos m • Gray Ece•v. Joc•n H. Wies, • 709

HOUSE F•CH PIGM•TATION: C•NO• METABO•SM A• T• E• o• D•r. Alan H. Br• and Denn• M. Power .......................... 725

AM• K•TR• S• •OS A• •B•AT SEPA•TION. G. Scott Mi•s • 740

ANATO• O• • MmD• E• R•IO• O• V• Edw•d S•11 749

V•AL D•ERENCES BETWEEN AMERICAN L•SI TERNS •D T• E•OP•N • •. B•b•a W. M•sey 760

P•c •AC• MvO•V o• r• •w• Ho•v•s Robe• J. R•kow 774

Co•a• Dm•vs o• Y•o n• •v • Woo• Dvcxs. Carl E. Korschg• and Leigh H. Fredr•ks• 793

Smmo De•o Paros o• Rv• Geovs•. H•be• L. ArcMb•d

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A note on the prehis•dc avifau• of the •w• K•ath B•in. Do• K. Gray•on 830 Comm• Gold• hatching from crack• e•. H•y G. Lumpden and Robot Wentlng 833 B• nor•n B• E• in FBdda • oth• •ut•m •t•. S•gei Pottspahky • 835 N•t •te •m•fifion •tw• Mo•n C•c• • V•kt-• S•. K•en

•. Frantr• 836

Conn•ticut Home Spews n•fing in D•em•r. Tom W•seh ....................... 837 B•a W•st• in •odda: fi•t sp•im• for continen•l North •. Osc• T. •re 837 P•bk mni•m in Sw•u's •wk. Wa•t R. Pil, 838

Flint r• • Smith's •p• in New Ymk. T•m• H. Da•: 838 Sno• •1 stea• p• from M•h Hawk. Da• C. D•#y, B•ce B•M•,

Ha• ........................................................................... 839

A •ible rein for mlmic• of a •-•fin8 hawk • • i•t-•fi• •te. •win O.

U• of •vel • P• M•m. C• N•fi• B•d E• attack r•e•ch•. T•yi G. G•b •2 T• status of Sayo•h saya yukonen$i• Bishop. M. Ralph •ownlng .............................. •3 A definite Co•r• •ing r•o• for •e H•uin Duck. Kenneth C. P•k•

Co•en Helg• N• 846

S•L RE, w: GR•W•T O• B• F•C•.

•WS. Edited by W•ter Bock ............................................ 855 NEws n• No• 870

•-T• SU•T TO r• • •O•TS' U•ON C•cx- LIST OF NORTH •ERICAN B•S 875

I•x TO VOL•E 93. Compil• by James J. •nsmore ......................... 8•