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From: edm@verdix.com (Ed Matthews)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Mockingbirds
Keywords: mockingbird,song
Message-ID: <1991May16.173543.6499@verdix.com>
Date: 16 May 91 17:35:43 GMT
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In article <24798@well.sf.ca.us> lp@well.sf.ca.us (Lily Pond) writes:
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>Has anyone else out there noticed what I have noticed about mockingbird
>song?  I've never seen this written about, but would appreciate pointers to
>articles if they exist:

There is a fairly long essay on Vocal Copying in Erhlich et al. _The
Birder's Handbook_, pp. 469-475.  Should be available at your local
bookstore.

Papers listed in the bibliography include:

Breitwisch R, Whitesides GH. Directionality of singing and nonsinging
behavior of mated and unmated Northern Mockingbirds, _Mimus Polyglottos_.
Anim Behav. 1987; 35:331-339.

Logan CA. Reproductively dependent song cyclicity in mated male Mockingbirds
(_Mimus Polyglottos_). Auk 1983; 100:404-413.

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