1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910715638403321

Titolo

Treaty with the Seneca Indians. Memorial of Benjamin Ferris, in behalf of the four yearly meetings of Friends, of Genesee, New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, remonstrating against any appropriation being made to carry out the treaty with the Seneca Indians. January 8, 1841. Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : [publisher not identified], , 1841

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (3 pages)

Collana

House document / 26th Congress, 2nd session. House ; ; no. 66

[United States congressional serial set ] ; ; [serial no. 383]

Altri autori (Persone)

FerrisBenjamin

Soggetti

Budget

Fraud

Indian reservations

Indians

Speculation

Legislative materials.

United States Appropriations and expenditures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Batch processed record: Metadata reviewed, not verified. Some fields updated by batch processes.

FDLP item number not assigned.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910957917503321

Autore

Johnsgard Paul A

Titolo

The avian brood parasites : deception at the nest / / Paul A. Johnsgard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1997

ISBN

0-19-770027-6

1-280-52922-9

9786610529223

0-19-535499-0

1-4294-1568-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (422 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

598.2556

Soggetti

Parasitic birds

Brood parasites

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliography: p379-396. _ Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1997.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-396) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; 1 An Overview of Brood Parasitism; 2 Eco-morphology and Interspecific Mimicry; 3 Behavioral and Reproductive Ecology; 4 Breeding Behavior; 5 Host Retaliation: The Co-evolutionary Arms Race; 6 Waterfowl (Family Anatidae); 7 Honeyguides (Family Indicatoridae); 8 Old World Cuckoos (Family Cuculidae); 9 American Ground-cuckoos (Family Neomorphidae); 10 African Parasitic Finches (Family Passeridae); 11 Parasitic Cowbirds (Tribe Icterini); Appendixes; A: Glossary; B: Latin Names of Birds Mentioned in the Text; References; Taxonomic Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N

OP; Q; R; S; T; V; W; X; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Discusses all of the world's nearly 100 species of obligatory brood parasites - those birds that reproduce only by laying their eggs in the nests of other species - and the ecological and evolutionary aspects of this remarkable behavioural adaptation.