PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS OF THE MADAGASCAR PYGMY KINGFISHER (ISPIDINA MADAGASCARIENSIS)

Auk, The, Oct 2005 by Marks, Ben D, Willard, David E

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We greatly appreciate the field efforts of S. Goodman and M. J. Raherilalao, who collected many of the samples used in this study. We thank the Ministere des Eaux et Forets in Madagascar, the Ghana Wildlife Division, and the Uganda Wildlife Authority and Forestry Department for permission to collect and export the specimens. M. Traylor provided the inspiration for this study. We thank F. Sheldon and D. Dittmann for allowing access to samples in the Genetic Resources collection at the LSUMNS. We are grateful to C. Kahindo for providing the translation of the abstract, as well as to R. Moyle, M. Cohn-Haft, J. Weckstein, S. Hackett, J. Bates, T. Schulenberg, and F. Sheldon for their helpful comments on the manuscript.

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