Recent studies in avian biology /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wolfson, Albert
Other Authors: Davis, David Edward
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1955.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Concepts and problems of avian systematics in relation to evolutionary processes, by A. H. Miller
  • Recent revisions in classification and their biological significance, by H. Friedmann
  • Paleontology, by A. Wetmore
  • Avian anatomy, 1925-1950, and some suggested problems, by H. I. Fisher
  • The study of behavior in birds, by J. T. Emlen, Jr
  • Bird navigation, by D. R. Griffin
  • The annual stimulus for migration: experimental and physiologic aspects, by D. S. Farner
  • Direct studies of nocturnal bird migration, by G. H. Lowery, Jr., and R. J. Newman
  • Breeding biology of birds, by D. E. Davis
  • Recent advances in knowledge concerning the role of hormones in the sex differentiation of birds, by L. V. Domm
  • Some American population research on gallinaceous birds, by J. J. Hickey
  • Birdbanding in the study of population dynamics, by D. S. Farner
  • Diseases of birds, by C. M. Herman.