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| The courtship behavior of Sanford's bowerbird (Archboldia sanfordi). American Museum novitates ; no. 1935 |
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| Title: | The courtship behavior of Sanford's bowerbird (Archboldia sanfordi). American Museum novitates ; no. 1935 |
| Authors: | Gilliard, E. Thomas (Ernest Thomas), 1912-1965. |
| Issue Date: | 1959 |
| Publisher: | New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History |
| Series/Report no.: | American Museum novitates ; no. 1935 |
| Abstract: | "Sanford's bowerbird (Archboldia sanfordi) was discovered in 1950 in the forests of Mt. Hagen, New Guinea. This species, together with the closely related Archbold's bowerbird (A. papuensis) of western New Guinea, for which a new genus was erected in 1940, differs sharply from all other bowerbirds. Nothing was known of the bower-building behavior of either species except for some circumstantial evidence that the bower took the form of a fern mat in A. sanfordi. In that species the male is sooty black, with a golden crown, whereas in the western species the male is blackish gray, with no trace of color on the head. The females of the two species are so similar that they might easily be taken as belonging to the same species. It is this phenomenon that led to the development of the hypothesis that in certain closely related species of bowerbirds the transfer of sexual signals to objects has brought about the secondary loss of sexual plumage in the males. The loss of sexual plumage is pos... |
| Description: | 18 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 18). |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2246/5366 |
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