Phylogeny of the Waxwings and Allied Birds By: M. Dale Arvey
First Page: Phylogeny of the Waxwings and Allied Birds BY M. DALE ARVEY University of Kansas Publications Museum of Natural History Volume 3, No. 3, pp. 473 530, 49 figures in text, 13 tables October 10, 1951 UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE 1951 UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Edward H. Taylor, A. Byron Leonard, Robert W. Wilson Volume 3, No. 3, pp. 473 530, 49 figures in text, 13 tables Published October 10, 1951 University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas PRINTED BY FERD VOILAND, JR., STATE PRINTER TOPEKA, KANSAS 1950 [Illustration: union label] 23 1019 Phylogeny of the Waxwings and Allied Birds by M. DALE ARVEY CONTENTS PAGE Introduction 476 Acknowledgments 476 Nomenclatural History 477 Materials 478 Diagnoses 478 Coloration 485 Courtship 489 Nest Building 491 Food 493 Skeleton 494 Skull 494 Humerus 499 Pygostyle 502 Sternum 505 Relative Lengths of Bones 505 Leg trunk Percentages 509 Arm trunk Percentages 511 Musculature 514 Caudal Muscles 514 Pectoral Muscles 517 Hind Limb Musculature 517 Digestive Tract 517 Origin of the Species 519 Conclusions 521 Summary 524 Bibliography 525 INTRODUCTION A small family of passerine birds, the Bombycillidae, has been selected for analysis in the present paper. By comparative study of coloration, nesting, food habits, skeleton and soft parts, an attempt is made to determine which of the differences and similarities between species are the result of habits within relatively recent geological time, and which differences are the result of inheritance from ancient ancestral stocks, which were in the distant past morphologically different. On the basis of this information, an attempt is made to ascertain the natural relationships of these birds. Previous workers have assigned waxwings alone to the family Bombycillidae, and a question to be determined in the present study is whether or not additional kinds of birds should be included in the family... Continue reading book >>

Phylogeny of the Waxwings and Allied Birds By: M. Dale Arvey

First Page:

Phylogeny of the Waxwings and Allied Birds

M. DALE ARVEY

University of Kansas Publications Museum of Natural History

Volume 3, No. 3, pp. 473 530, 49 figures in text, 13 tables October 10, 1951

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE 1951

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PUBLICATIONS, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Edward H. Taylor, A. Byron Leonard, Robert W. Wilson

Volume 3, No. 3, pp. 473 530, 49 figures in text, 13 tables Published October 10, 1951

University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas

PRINTED BY FERD VOILAND, JR., STATE PRINTER TOPEKA, KANSAS 1950 [Illustration: union label] 23 1019

Phylogeny of the Waxwings and Allied Birds

by M. DALE ARVEY

CONTENTS

PAGE Introduction 476 Acknowledgments 476 Nomenclatural History 477 Materials 478 Diagnoses 478 Coloration 485 Courtship 489 Nest Building 491 Food 493 Skeleton 494 Skull 494 Humerus 499 Pygostyle 502 Sternum 505 Relative Lengths of Bones 505 Leg trunk Percentages 509 Arm trunk Percentages 511 Musculature 514 Caudal Muscles 514 Pectoral Muscles 517 Hind Limb Musculature 517 Digestive Tract 517 Origin of the Species 519 Conclusions 521 Summary 524 Bibliography 525

INTRODUCTION

A small family of passerine birds, the Bombycillidae, has been selected for analysis in the present paper. By comparative study of coloration, nesting, food habits, skeleton and soft parts, an attempt is made to determine which of the differences and similarities between species are the result of habits within relatively recent geological time, and which differences are the result of inheritance from ancient ancestral stocks, which were in the distant past morphologically different. On the basis of this information, an attempt is made to ascertain the natural relationships of these birds. Previous workers have assigned waxwings alone to the family Bombycillidae, and a question to be determined in the present study is whether or not additional kinds of birds should be included in the family... Continue reading book >>

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