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Ibis

Vol. 140, No. 3. July 1998

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Science, Conservation and Ibis

ROBERT B. PAYNE
A new species of firefinch Lagonosticta from northern Nigeria and its association with the Jos Plateau Indigobird Vidua maryae

JEAN-MARC THIOLLAY & MATHILDE JULLIEN
Flocking behaviour of foraging birds in a neotropical rain forest and the antipredator defence hypothesis

RITA COVAS & JACQUES BLONDEL
Biogeography and history of the Mediterranean bird fauna

SOON-BOK HONG, YONG-TAE WOO & SEIGO HIGASHI
Effects of clutch size and egg-laying order on the breeding success in the Little Tern Sterna albifrons on the Nakdong Estuary, Republic of Korea

MARC BOSCH & DANIEL SOL
Habitat selection and breeding success in Yellow-legged Gulls Larus cachinnans

DARIUSZ BUKACINSKI, MONIKA BUKACINSKA & ARIE L. SPAANS
Experimental evidence for the relationship between food supply, parental effort and chick survival in the Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus

XAVIER RUIZ, JACOB GONZ;LEZ-SOLQS, DANIEL ORO & LLUIS JOVER
Body size variation in Audouin's Gull Larus audouinii; a density-dependent effect?

ROBERT E. SIMMONS, IMKE CORDES & ROD BRABY
Latitudinal trends, population size and habitat preferences of the Damara Tern Sterna balaenarum on Namibia's desert coast

NIGEL BROTHERS, ROSEMARY GALES, APRIL HEDD & GRAHAM ROBERTSON
Foraging movements of the Shy Albatross Diomedea cauta breeding in Australia; implications for interactions with longline fisheries

J. P. GRANADEIRO, M. D. BURNS & R. W. FURNESS
Patterns of activity and burrow attendance in Cory's Shearwater Calonectris diomedea as revealed by a novel logging technique

BELINDA L. CANNELL & J. M. CULLEN
The foraging behaviour of Little Penguins Eudyptula minor at different light levels

J. CRIVELLI, D. HATZILACOU & G. CATSADORAKIS
The breeding biology of the Dalmatian Pelican Pelecanus crispus

S. BOISSEAU & D. W. YALDEN
The former status of the Crane Grus grus in Britain

ELKE FRANKE, SUE JACKSON & SUE NICOLSON
Nectar sugar preferences and absorption in a generalist African frugivore, the Cape White-eye Zosterops pallidus

ARNON LOTEM
Brood reduction and begging behaviour in the Swift Apus apus; no evidence that large nestlings restrict parental choice

PETER A. COTTO
The hummingbird community of a lowland Amazonian rainforest

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J. C. SENAR, F. URIBE, J. DOMENECHI & L. M. CARRASCAL
Successive removal of individual rectrices does not influence the subsequent growth of the replacement feathers in the Great Tit Parus major

JEAN-CLAUDE THIBAULT & VINCENT BRETAGNOLLE
A Mediterranean breeding colony of Cory's Shearwater Calonectris diomedea in which individuals show behavioural and biometric characters of the Atlantic subspecies

E. J. PELLATT
Changes in the size and content of sperm storage tubules during the breeding cycle of the Zebra Finch Taeniopygia guttata

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