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Imperfect albinism in a red-tailed tropicbird
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Authors
R. B. Clapp, L.N. Huber
Department of the Interior's regulations on importation and shipment of scientific and zoological specimens of fish and wildlife
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Authors
R.C. Banks, E.P. Denson
A specimen of Jouanin's petrel from Lisianski Island, northwestern Hawaiian Islands
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Authors
R. B. Clapp
Publication dates of the North American Fauna series
The correct date of publication of numbers in the well-known North American Fauna series, begun in 1889, was printed on the cover of each issue through No. 48. After that time dates of publication that appear on the covers are either incomplete or incorrect. For taxonomic purposes, for developing a chronological survey of a subject, or for other reasons, the exact date of publication of numbers in
Authors
Richard C. Banks
Proceedings of the eighty-eighth stated meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union
The Eighty-eighth Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union was held 5-9 October 1970 at Buffalo, New York. Cosponsors were the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, the Buffalo Audubon Society, and the Buffalo Ornithological Society. Business sessions were held in the Statler Hilton Hotel on 5 October, and papers sessions in the Buffalo Museum of Science on 6, 7, and 8 October. An all-
Authors
Richard C. Banks
Reproduction and survival of short-tailed shrews (Blarina brevicauda) in captivity
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Authors
L. J. Blus
How to prepare a winter range map from Christmas bird count data
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Authors
D. Bystrak
Monitoring pesticides in wildlife
Early in the development of the wildlife monitoring program, certain criteria were recognized as being important in the selection of species of wild animals suitable for pesticide monitoring purposes. Ideally, the forms selected should be geographically well distributed, and they should be reasonably abundant and readily available for sampling. In addition, animals occurring near the top of food
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E. H. Dustman, W.E. Martin, R.G. Heath, W. L. Reichel
Thickness of 1967-69 whooping crane eggshells compared to that of pre-1910 specimens
Table 1 summarizes measurements of pre-1910 Whooping Crane (Grus americana) eggshells obtained from 10 North American museums and private egg collections. They include 30 eggs from Iowa, 5 from North Dakota, 13 from Manitoba, and 2 each from Saskatchewan and Alberta; 11 of the eggs were classified as subelliptical and 41 as oval according to the shapes described by Palmer (1962: 13). Mean clutch s
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Daniel W. Anderson, J.F. Kreitzer