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Hawks Prefer Diet Of Mice To Quail, Jessie Maye Smith Jan 1970

Hawks Prefer Diet Of Mice To Quail, Jessie Maye Smith

Jessie Maye Smith Birds and Watchers Columns Collection

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Environmental Gains Of 1969 Push Hopes In Ecology Field, Jessie Maye Smith Jan 1970

Environmental Gains Of 1969 Push Hopes In Ecology Field, Jessie Maye Smith

Jessie Maye Smith Birds and Watchers Columns Collection

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A Summary Of Intergeneric New World Quail Hybrids, And A New Intergeneric Hybrid Combination, Paul A. Johnsgard Jan 1970

A Summary Of Intergeneric New World Quail Hybrids, And A New Intergeneric Hybrid Combination, Paul A. Johnsgard

Papers in Ornithology

The exceedingly close affinities of the quail genera Colinus, Callipepla, and Lophortyx have been recognized for some time and have recently been emphasized by additional morphological (Holman 1961; Hudson et al. 1966), biochemical (Sibley 1960), and pterylographic (Ohmart 1967) evidence. Indeed, Holman has suggested that these three taxa might best be regarded as subgenera. Phillips et al. (1964) pragmatically merged Lophortyx with Callipepla; and Delacour (1961-1962) synonymized not only Lophortyx, but also Oreortyx and Philortyx, with Callipepla, yet retained Colinus as a separate genus. Although Ohmart (1967) questioned the validity of generically separating Lophortyx and …


The Feasibility Of Avian Karyotypes In Taxonomy, Gerald Francis Shields Jan 1970

The Feasibility Of Avian Karyotypes In Taxonomy, Gerald Francis Shields

All Master's Theses

The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to evaluate the usefulness of various karyotypic procedures using domesticated and passerine birds and second, to comment on the validity of the application of karyotypic data to taxonomy.