Includes the following contributions: Comparative Avian Demography; The Determination of Clutch Size in Precocial Birds; Structure and Function of Avian Eggs; The Origin of Birds and of Avian Flight; Bird Chromosomes; Phylogeny and classification of Birds Based on the Data of DNA; DNA Hybridization; more. 425 pp. Ex-library: call number on spine, library stamp on endpapers, title page, and foreedge.