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Preface vii
QUATERNARY INSULAR BIRDS
The Avifauna of Reunion Island (Mascarene Islands) at the Time of the Arrival of
the First Europeans, by Cecile Mourer-Chauvire, Roger Bour, Sonia Ribes, and
Francois Moutou 1
The Fossil Avifauna of Amsterdam Island, Indian Ocean, by Trevor H. Worthy and
Pierre Jouventin 39
Comparison of Paleoecological Patterns in Insular Bird Faunas: A Case Study from
the Western Mediterranean and Hawaii, by Bartomeu Segui and Josep Antoni
Alcover 67
A New Species of Extinct Barn Owl (Aves: Tyto) from Barbuda, Lesser Antilles,
by David W. Steadman and 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 Ill
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 and 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, and Kathleen B. Springer 169
The Fossil Record of Condors (Ciconiiformes: Vulturidae) in Argentina, by
Claudia P. Tambussi and 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 and Nicholas J.
Czaplewski 185
THREE NEW GENERA OF PALEOGENE BIRDS
A New Genus of Dwarf Megapode (Galliformes: Megapodiidae) from the Late Oligocene
of Central Australia, by Walter E. Boles and 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 Ancestry of Hummingbirds,
by Alexandr A. Karhu 207
Selmes absurdipes, New Genus, New Species, a Sandcoleiform Bird from the Oil
Shale of Messel (Germany, Middle Eocene), by D. Stefan Peters 217