TESTOSTERONE DOES NOT INCREASE IN RESPONSE TO CONSPECIFIC CHALLENGES IN THE WHITE-BELLIED ANTBIRD (MYRMECIZA LONGIPES), A RESIDENT TROPICAL PASSERINE

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Associate Editor: j. H. Vega Rivera

BRADLEY C. FEFY1 AND BRIDGET J. M. STUTCHBURY

Department of Biology, York University, 4700 Keele Street North, Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3, Canada