Avian paleontology at the close of the 20th century : proceedings of the 4th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Washington, D.C., 4-7 June 1996

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• CONTENTS
• Preface = ⅶ
• QUATERNARY INSULAR BIRDS
• The Avifauna of R$$\e'$$union island (Mascarene Islands) at the Time of the Arrival of the First Europeans / by C$$\e'$$ci1e Mourer-Chauvir$$\e'$$ ; Roger Bour ; Sonia Ribes ; Francois Moutou = 1
• The Fossil Avifauna of Amsterdam Island, Indian Ocean ; Trevor H. Worthy ; Pierre Jouventin = 39
• Comparison of Paleoecological Patterns in Insular Bird Faunas : A Case Study from the Western Mediterranean and Hawaii / by Bartomeu Segui ; Josep Antoni Alcover = 67
• A New Species of Extinct Barn Owl (Aves : Tyto) from Barbuda, Lesser Antilles ; by David W. Steadman ; William B. Hilgartner = 75
• The History of the Chatham Islands' Bird Fauna of the Last 7000 Years - A Chronicle of Change and Extinction / by Philip R. Millener = 85
• The Role of Climate Change Versus Human Impacts - Avian Extinction on South Island, New Zealand / by Trevor H. Worthy = 111
• The Middle Pleistocene Avifauna of Spinagallo Cave (Sicily, Italy) : Preliminary Report / by Marco Pavia = 125
• QUATERNARY AVIFAUNAL STUDIES IN CONTINENTAL EUROPE
• Birds in the Economy and Culture of Early Iron Age Inhabitants of Ust' Poluisk, Lower Ob' River, Northwestern Siberia / by Olga R. Potapova ; Andrei V. Panteleyev = 129
• Seabirds and Late Pleistocene Marine Environments in the Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean / by Tommy Tyrberg = 139
• Intraspecific Variation in Modern and Quaternary European Lagopus / by John R. Stewart = 159
• LARGE RAPTORS FROM THE LATE CENOZOIC OF THE NEW WORLD
• A New Genus for the Incredible Teratorn (Aves : Teratornithidae) / by Kenneth E. Campbell ; Jr., Eric Scott ; Kathleen B. Springer = 169
• The Fossil Record of Condors (Ciconiiformes : Vulturidae) in Argentina / by Claudia P. Tambussi ; Jorge I. Noriega = 177
• Two New Fossil Eagles from the Late Pliocene (Late Blancan) of Florida and Arizona and Their Biogeographic Implications / by Steven D. Emslie ; Nicholas J. Czaplewski = 185
• THREE NEW GENERA OF PALEOGENE BIRDS
• A New Genus of Dwarf Megapode (Galliformes : Megapodiidae) from the Late Oilgocene of Central Australia / by Walter E. Boles ; Tessa J. Ivison = 199
• A New Genus and Species of the Family Jungornithidae (Apodiformes) from the Late Eocene of the Northern Caucasus, with Comments on the Ancestiy of Humming-birds / by Alexandr A. Karhu = 207
• Selmes absurdipes, New Genus, New Species, a Sandcoleifom Bird from the Oil Shale of Messel (Germany, Middle Eocene) / by D. Stefan Peters = 217
• EARLY WATERFOWL (ANSERIFORMES) AND RELATIVES
• A Fossil Screamer (Anseriformes : Anhimidae) from the Middle Tertiary of South-eastern Brazil / by Herculano M.F. Alvarenga = 223
• The Anseriform Relationships of Anatalavis Olson and Parris (Anseranatidae), with a New Species from the Lower Eocene London Clay / by Storrs L. Olson = 231
• New Material of Juncitarsus (Phoenicopteriformes), with a Guide for Differentiating that Genus from the Presbyornithidae (Anseriformes) / by Per G.P. Ericson = 245
• Presbyornis isoni and Other Late Paleocene Birds from North Dakota / by Richard D. Benson = 253
• A New Species of Graculavus from the Cretaceous of Wyoming (Aves : Neornithes), by Sylvia Hope = 261
• MESOZOIC BIRDS AND EARLY AVIAN EVOLUTION
• Implications of the Cranial Morphology of Paleognaths for Avian Evolution / by Felix Y. Dzerzhinsky = 267
• The Relationships of the Early Cretaceous Ambiortus and Otogornis (Aves : Ambiortiformes) / by Evgeny N. Kurochkin = 275
• Enantiornithes : Earlier Birds than Archaeopteryx? / by Zygmunt Boche$$\n'$$ski = 285
• Feathered Dinosaur or Bird? A New Look at the Hand of Archaeopteryx / by Zhonghe Zhou ; Larry D. Martin = 289
• Implantation and Replacement of Bird Teeth / by Larry D. Martin ; J.D. Stewart = 295
• Humeral Rotation and Wrist Supination : Important Functional Complex for the Evolution of Powered Flight in Birds? / by John H. Ostrom ; Samuel O. Poore ; G.E. Goslow, Jr = 301
• A Comparison of the Jaw Skeleton in Theropods and Birds, with a Description of the Palate in the Oviraptoridae / by Andrzej Elzanowski = 311
• Early Evolution of Birds : Roundtable Discussion = 325
• New Aspects of Avian Origins : Roundtable Report / by Lawrence M. Witmer = 327
• Early Avian Evolution : Roundtable Report / by Luis M. Chiappe = 335
• The Origin of Bird Flight : Roundtable Report / by G.E. Goslow, Jr = 341