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Progress report on in vitro culture of cyclostome and elasmobranch cells and tissues
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Authors
K. Wolf, M. C. Quimby
[Book review] Wagstaffe, R. and J. H. Fidler. The Preservation of Natural History Specimens. Vol. 2, Philosophical Library. 1968. 404 pp
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Authors
R.C. Banks
[Book review] Life histories of North American cardinals, grosbeaks, buntings, towhees, finches, sparrows, and allies
The completion of an ornithological series as important as the Bent Life Histories is an exciting event. Here is a series of 21 volumes, spanning a history of nearly 60 years from inception to completion, containing over 9,500 text pages of information about North American birds, largely the work of one man – who was not professionally an ornithologist. One cannot well review the final number of s
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R.C. Banks
[Book review] Ornithology: an Introduction, by Austin L. Rand
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Authors
C.S. Robbins
Residues in two bald eagles suspected of pesticide poisoning
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Authors
W. L. Reichel, T. G. Lamont, E. Cromartie, L. N. Locke
[Book review] A field guide to the birds of New Zealand and outlying islands
This field guide is so closely patterned after the familiar Peterson style that it may best be described in terms of its departures from that style. Color plates are disappointingly few. They depict: Penguin heads, parrots and kingfisher, eight species of ducks, a pigeon and seven species of native songbirds, eight other passerines and two cuckoos, and nine introduced songbirds (eight of which hav
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Chandler S. Robbins
Pesticide residues in eagles
Bald and golden eagles found sick or dead in 18 States and Canada during 1964-1965 were analyzed for pesticide residues. Residues in bald eagles were considerably higher than in golden eagles. Residues of DDE, DDD, and dieldrin were detected in all samples of bald eagle carcasses; other compounds found, less frequently were heptachlor epoxide, endrin, and DCBP, a metabolite of DDT. DDE was dete
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W. L. Reichel, E. Cromartie, T. G. Lamont, B. M. Mulhern, R. M. Prouty
[Book review] Extinct and Vanishing Birds of the World, by J.C. Greenway, Dover Publications, New York, NY, 520 pp
No abstract available.
Authors
R.C. Erickson
Sixty-ninth Christmas bird count. 288. Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Va
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Authors
P.W. Sykes
A comparative study of mollusk predation by limpkins, Everglade kites, and boat-tailed grackles
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Authors
N.F.R. Snyder, Hollice A. Snyder