THE CONDOR
Vol. 104, Number 4
November 2002 C.E.
TABLE OF CONTENTS

FEATURE ARTICLES

Avian Facultative Hypothermic Responses: A Review

705

ANDREW E. MCKECHNIE AND BARRY G. LOVEGROVE

Systematics and Historical Biogeography of Wagtails: Dispersal Versus Vicariance Revisited

725

GARY VOELKER

Phylogenetic Relationships of the Wrentit Based on Mitochondrial Cytochrome b Sequences

740

DINO N. BARHOUM AND KEVIN J. BURNS

Geographic Song Variation and its Consequences in the Golden Bowerbird

750

DAVID A. WESTCOTT AND FREDERIEKE J. KROON

Vocal Development is Correlated with an Indicator of Hatching Date in Brown-headed Cowbirds

761

ADRIAN L. O'LOGHLEN AND STEPHEN I. ROTHSTEIN

Social Organization on Leks of the Wire-tailed Manakin in Southern Venezuela

772

MARTIN HEINDL

Population Structure of Pacific Common Eiders Breeding in Alaska

780

MARGARET R. PETERSEN AND PAUL L. FLINT

Productivity and Nesting Success of Thick-billed Parrots

788

TIBERIO MONTERRUBIO, ERNESTO ENKERLIN-HOEFLICH AND ROBERT B. HAMILTON

Fitness Consequences of Nest Desertion in an Endangered Host, the Least Bell's Vireo

795

BARBARA E. KUS

Individual, Temporal, and Seasonal Variation in Sperm Concentration in Tree Swallows

803

MICHAEL P. LOMBARDO, ARMETRIS N. FORMAN, MATTHEW R. CZARNOWSKI AND PATRICK A. THORPE

Diet of the Endemic Madeira Laurel Pigeon and Fruit Resource Availability: A Study Using Microhistological Analyses

811

PAULO OLIVEIRA, PATRICIA MARRERO AND MANUEL NOGALES

Parental Provisioning Patterns of Wedge-tailed Shearwaters and their Relation to Chick Body Condition

823

CHERYL L. BADUINI



SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

Social Structure of Andean Condor Roosts: Influence of Sex, Age, and Season

832

JOSÉ A. DONÁZAR AND JUAN E. FEIJÓO

Thermal Imaging of House Sparrow Nestlings: The Effect of Begging Behavior and Nestling Rank

837

ODED OVADIA, BERRY PINSHOW AND ARNON LOTEM

Reduction of Provisioning Effort in Response to Experimental Manipulation of Chick Nutritional Status in the Horned Puffin

842

ANN M. A. HARDING, THOMAS I. VAN PELT, JOHN F. PIATT AND ALEXANDER S. KITAYSKY

Responses of Adult White-crowned Sparrows to Playback of Song Phrases: Implications for the Ontogeny of Song Recognition

848

JILL A. SOHA AND CAROL WHALING

Lack of Discrimination of Conspecific Vocalizations by Black-capped Chickadees: Tests on Hand-Raised Juveniles

854

DAVID E. GAMMON, MYRON C. BAKER AND LISETTE BETANCOURT

Context-Specific Response of Florida Scrub-Jay Pairs to Northern Mockingbird Vocal Mimicry

858

NOAH T. OWEN-ASHLEY, STEPHAN J. SCHOECH AND RONALD L. MUMME

Brown-headed Cowbirds in Eastern and Western North America Show Similar Use of Courtship Songs in Copulation Contexts

866

EDNA GORNEY-LABINGER AND STEPHEN I. ROTHSTEIN

Patterns of Prolactin Secretion in Relation to Incubation Failure in a Tropical Seabird, the Red-footed Booby

873

OLIVIER CHASTEL AND HERVÉ LORMÉE

Nestling Sex Ratio in the Southwestern Willow Flycatcher

877

EBEN H. PAXTON, MARK K. SOGGE, TRACY D. MCCARTHEY AND PAUL KEIM

Male-Biased Offspring Sex Ratio in the House Wren

881

SHANNON M. JANOTA, SHERYL SWARTZ SOUKUP AND CHARLES F. THOMPSON

Patterns of Growth in Nestling Indian Barn-Owls

885

RAJARATHINAVELU NAGARAJAN, KRISHINAMOORTHY THIYAGESAN, RAJAGOPALAN NATARAJAN AND RAMALINAGM KANAKASABAI

Composition of Cavity-Nesting Bird Communities in Montane Aspen Woodland Fragments: The Roles of Landscape Context and Forest Structure

890

JOSHUA J. LAWLER AND THOMAS C. EDWARDS JR.

A Middle Eocene Shorebird from China

896

LIANHAI HOU AND PER G. P. ERICSON

Nest Monitoring and Predator Visitation at Nests of Banded Dotterels

899

RACHEL J. KEEDWELL AND MARK D. SANDERS



BOOK REVIEWS 

Birds of Southern South America and Antarctica, by Martin R. de la Peña and Maurice Rumboll

903

BRYAN L. SHARP

Seabird Bycatch: Trends, Roadblocks, and Solutions, edited by Edward F. Melvin and Julia K. Parrish

903

ERIC GILMAN

Briefly Noted: Caribbean Triad

905

WILLIAM I. BOARMAN



FROM THE EDITOR

906


NEWS AND NOTES

907


REVIEWERS FOR VOLUME 104

909


INDEX TO VOLUME 104

911