Variation in mass, wing, and culmen with age, sex, and season in the Mexican Jay

Journal of Field Ornithology

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 18-29

  Brown, Jerram L ^a   Bhagabati, Nirmal ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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