COLOR VARIATION AMONG NESTLING BROWN-HEADED COWBIRDS (MOLOTHRUS ATER) DOES NOT REFLECT DIFFERENTIAL SUCCESS WITH HOSTS IN TEXAS

Auk, The, Apr 2007 by Ellison, Kevin, Sealy, Spencer G, McGaha, Hope R

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Associate Editor: R. C. Fleischer

KEVIN ELLISON,1 SPENCER G. SEALY, AND HOPE R. MCGAHA

Department of Zoology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2, Canada

1 Present address: Department of Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA. E-mail: ksellison@wisc.edu