Subject: Re: Northwestern Crows (was Species Concepts)
Date: Jul 5 10:26:15 1995
From: Dennis Paulson - dpaulson at ups.edu


James Ha wrote:

>Nope, basically calls from "Seattle" and Nanaimo are statistically
>distinguishable, and calls from Sequim and San Juan Island are
>intermediate- I've got a great cluster figure... I'll see if I can create
>an ascii version... of course, I'll bring it along when we come for a
>visit (some time soon!).
>
>> Of course, according to tradition (i.e., Jewett et al., Birds of Washington
>> State), Seattle crows are supposed to be both _caurinus_ (at and near the
>> coast) and _brachyrhynchos_ (away from it). Where was your roost?
>
>University of Washington campus, outside the Burke Museum. What do you
>think?

I suppose that's a good population of _caurinorhynchus_ (which means
"Northwest bill").

I'm glad to hear that your data indicate intermediacy of call types, as
that's what many of us thought was going on. It's still interesting that
Seattle and Nanaimo are distinctly different, and the next stage obviously
would be to continue the series and get some recordings from places like
Portland and Ellensburg. Exciting and needs to be published.

Dennis Paulson, Director phone: (206) 756-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax: (206) 756-3352
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