Birds Notes

Notes on Birds of the Auckland Islands , November - December 1989

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Notes and Comments Directional Selection and Clutch Size in Birds

Autobiographical notes

I was born in Zagreb (Croatia) on October 26, 1936. My parents were Regina (née Pavić) (April17, 1916, Zagreb–March 9, 1992, Zagreb) and Cvjetko Trinajstić (September 9, 1913, Volosko–October 29, 1998, Richmond, Australia).

Notes on the Use of Mist-nets for Surveying Birds in a Lowland New Guinea Forest

Mist-netting is frequently used to sample the species richness and diversity of bird communities in New Guinea, but its effectiveness and potential biases are poorly known. The study analyzed mist-netting data from survey points in a mature tropical lowland forest to assess patterns in quantity and diversity of species and its overall description of a bird community, particularly those resultin...

Notes on a Third Collection of Birds Made in Kauai , Hawaiian Islands , by Valdemar Knudsen

1888.—Puffinus cuneatus Salvin, Ibis, 1888 (July 1), p. 353. 1888.— Puffinus knudseni Stejnkger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.. XI, 1888 (Nov. 8.), p. 93. The additional four specimens received from Mr. Knudsen do away with those differences which I imagined to exist between the Hawaiian Islands bird and the description of Salvin's P. cuneatus published only a few months before my own, and as the name ...