Subadult plumage in the House Finch and tests of models for the evolution of delayed plumage maturation

Auk

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 858-874

  Hill, Geoffrey E ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARPODACUS MEXICANUS; FRINGILLIDAE; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0030442787     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4088864     Document Type: Article

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