Recent increase in Male House Finch plumage variation and its possible relationship to avian pox disease

Auk

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 35-44

  Zahn, Sherie N ^a,b   Rothstein, Stephen I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; PASSERINE; PLUMAGE;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

CARPODACUS MEXICANUS;

EID: 0033005901     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089451     Document Type: Article

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