Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Year of Publication: | 1939 |
Authors: | Moreau, RE, Moreau., WM |
Journal: | Ibis |
Volume: | 81 |
Issue: | 2 |
Date Published: | 1939 |
ISBN Number: | 1474-919X |
Keywords: | Calamonastes, Caprimulgus, Caprimulgus europaeus, Cercococcyx, Chrysococcyx, Chrysococcyx klaas, Cryptospiza, Cryptospiza salvadorii, Cuculidae, Cuculus, Cuculus canorus, Emberiza, Emberiza poliopleura, Emberizidae, Estrildidae, Lonchura, Lonchura nigriceps, Phyllastrephus, Ploceus, Pseudoalcippe, Pseudonigrita, Spermestes, Spermestes nigriceps |
Abstract: | Summary Contributions are made to the biology of about forty species. Among other items dealt with are parasitism in Cercococcyx; undeseribed nests and eggs, including those of Pseudoalcippe a. abyssinicus, Phyllastrephus f. placidus, Calamonastes s. simplex, Uræginihus cyanocephalus, Cryptospiza salvadorii, and Emberiza poliopleura; removal of its own eggs by a Nightjar (Caprimulgus); care of young Klaas's Cuckoos by birds of their own species; polygamy and monogamy in the Ploceus spp.; subspecific and local voice-variation; communal nest-building in Spermestes nigriceps; the number of grass-stems comprising a nest of Pseudonigrita cahanisi. |
URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1939.tb03976.x |
Short Title: | Ibis |
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