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297 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Contents: Introduction, Readings in wildlife conservation / James A. Bailey, William Elder, and Ted D. McKinney -- Taxonomy and systematics : their significance / Richard M. Hunter -- The contribution of museum collections to knowledge of the living bird / Kenneth C. Parkes -- Systematists, other users, and uses of North American collections of recent mammals / Hugh H. Genoways, Jerry R. Choate, Edward F. Pembleton, Ira F. Greenbaum, and John W. Bickham -- Altitude records for mallard / Richard H. Manville -- Identification services / Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife -- Species identification of commercial crocodilian skins / F. Wayne King and Peter Brazaitis -- Charadriiformes new to Nevada / C.S. Lawson -- What to look for : Eskimo and little curlews compared / John Farrand, Jr. -- Fish otoliths in cetacean stomachs and their importance in interpreting feeding habits / John E. Fitch and Robert L. Brownell, Jr. -- Plan and scope of field study / Alden H. Miller and Robert C. Stebbins -- Introduction, Wildlife of Mexico: the game birds and mammals / A. Starker Leopold -- Notes on the distribution and taxonomy of Mexican game birds / Frank A. Pitelka -- A new subspecies of sandhill crane from Mississippi / John W. Aldrich -- Percina (Imostoma) tanasi, a percid fish from the Little Tennessee River, Tennessee / David A. Etnier -- Distribution, variation, and ecology of Lepidomeda vittata, a rare cyprinid fish endemic to eastern Arizona / Robert Rush Miller -- A taxonomic study of the Sonoran pronghorn / John L. Paradiso and Ronald M. Nowak -- California condor specimens in collections / Sanford R. Wilbur -- Revised list and definition of migratory birds -- First North American record of the Asian needle-tailed swift, Hirundapus caudacutus / Clayton M. White and William M. Baird -- The source of migrant mourning doves in southern Florida / John W. Aldrich -- Origin and dispersal of the alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus, and the gizzard shad, Dorsosoma cepedianum, in the Great Lakes / Robert Rush Miller -- Cranial variation in polar bears / Don E. Wilson -- Distribution and differentiation of populations of dolphins of the genus Stenella in the eastern tropical Pacific / William F. Perrin -- Racial composition of migrant populations of sandhill cranes in the northern plains states / Douglas H. Johnson and Robert E. Stewart -- Leopard frog supply / Joseph T. Bagnara and John S. Frost -- Significance of racial variation of birds to wildlife management / John W. Aldrich -- The red-whiskered bulbul in Florida / Richard C. Banks and Roxie C. Laybourne -- The African cichlid, Tilapia heudeloti dumeril, in the commercial fish catch of Florida / Victor C. Springer and John H. Finucane -- Checklist and relative abundance of fish species from the Hanford Reach of the Columbia River / Robert H. Gray and Dennis D. Dauble -- The San Francisco Bay Project : a new approach to using systematics / Welton L. Lee -- Avian eggshell thickness : variability and sampling / Erwin E. Klass, Harry M. Ohlendorf, and Robert G. Heath -- Historical changes in mercury contamination in Michigan walleyes (Stizostedion vitreum vitreum) / T.M. Kelly, J.D. Jones, and G.R. Smith -- Bird records from Nevada / Richard C. Banks and Donald E. Lewis -- Records, obtained while banding, of birds unusual in southeastern Oregon / Eugene Kridler -- Pentland's tinamou in Argentina (Aves : Tinamidae) / Richard C. Banks and Wayne H. Bohl -- Population systematics in bird conservation / John W. Aldrich. |