For those who were unaware, there is a "festscrift" book out celebrating
the contributions to ornithology of the late Allan Phillips. It includes
several sections of possible interest to OBOLoids and Tweetists. I am
posting it here because it is somewhat obscure and may not otherwise come
to your attention.

It is available for $37.50 by sending a check made out to Robert W.
Dickerman at the Museum of Southwestern Biology, Biology Department,
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM 87131. All proceeds go into a
memorial trust in Phillips' name to buy bird books for the UNM library.

NOTE that although I have ordered a copy I do not have it yet and therefore
cannot answer questions about the content. Bob Dickerman was kind enough
to mail me a photocopy of the contents pages.

Contents:

Biography of Allan Phillips - Bob Dickerman

Ornithological contributions of AP - John P. Hubbard

The name of Lawrence's Flycatcher - Richard Banks

Taxonomy of Picoides Pubescens (Downy Woodpecker) from the Pacific
Northwest - M. Ralph Browning

Resumen Avifaunistico de Nuevo Leon, Mexico - Armando J. Contreras-Balderas

Systematics of the southwestern and Mexican populations of the Spotted Owl,
with description of a new subspecies - Robert Dickerman

Estructura trofica y cambios estacionales de las aves en el matorral
desertico microfilo (Larrea tridentata) en en valle de cuatrocienegas,
Coahuila, Mexico - Juan A. Garcia-Salas et al.

Studio preliminar de la ornitofauna reproductora del matorral alto espinosa
(Prosopsis glandulosa-Acacia greggi) del valle de cuatrocienegas, Coahuila,
Mexico - Jose I. Gonzales-Rojas et al.

Allan R. Phillips and the development of ornithology as a science in
Arizona - R. Roy Johnson et al.

Avian biogeography in the islands of the Pacific coast of western Panama -
Storrs Olson

A concentration of Dickcissels in Sinaloa, Mexico - Gale Monson

Allan Phillips and the Flammulated Owl - Joe T. Marshall

Towards a less imperfect understanding of the systematics and biogeography
of the of the Clapper and King Rail Complex - Storrs Olson

Comparative foraging ecology of Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers - Henri Ouellet

The Northern Cardinals of the Caribbean slope of Mexico, with the
description of an additional subspecies from Yucatan - kenneth Parkes

The lessons of Catharus thrushes revisited - Michael patten

Avian biodiversity: how many species and subspecies of recent bird existed?
- Allan Phillips

A further examination of wing and tail formulae in Empidonax and Contopus
flycatchers - Peter Pyle

Molt, retained flight feathers and age in North American Hummingbirds -
Peter Pyle, Steve Howell and Gregory Yanega

The indeterminate parrot of Nuevo Leon - Amadeo Rea

Taxonomy of the Brown Creeper in California - Phil Unitt and Amadeo Rea

Skeletal Characters and the genera of warblers - J Dan Webster

A new form of Anabacerthia variegaticeps (Furnariidae) from western Mexico
- Kevin Winker

Taxa named in honor of Allan R. Phillips - Bob Dickerman and Ken Parkes

taxa described by AP, a critical list - Dickerman and PArkes

The publications of Allan R. Phillips - John P Hubbard et al.

END


Alan Contreras
acontrer at navicom.com
Salem, Oregon USA
"Of course I charge my friends; my enemies don't shop here"