Coliidae — Literature

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References

  • Berman, S. L. and R. J. Raikow. 1982. The hindlimb musculature of the mousebirds (Coliiformes). Auk 99:41-57.
  • Del Hoyo, J., A. Elliot, and J. Sargatal, eds. 2001. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 6. Mousebirds to Hornbills. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
  • Dickinson, Edward C., ed. 2003. The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World, 3rd edition. 1039
  • Downs, C. T., J. O. Wirminghaus, and M. J. Lawes. 2000. Anatomical and nutritional adaptations of the speckled mousebird (Colius striatus). Auk 117(3):791-794.
  • Finke, C., A. Misovic, and R. Prinzinger. 1995. Growth, the development of endothermy, and torpidity in blunaped mousebirds Urocolius macrourus. Ostrich 66:1-9.
  • Fowler, ME; Miller, RE. 2003. Zoo and Wild Animal Medicine. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Co.
  • Gill, F. and M. Wright. 2006. Birds of the World: Recommended English Names. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press.
  • Houde, P. and S. L. Olson. 1992. A radiation of coly-like birds from the Eocene of North America (Aves: Sandcoleiformes, new order). Papers in Avian Paleontology, honoring Pierce Brodkorb. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Science Series 36: 137-160.
  • Mayr, G. 1999. A new mousebird (Coliiformes: Coliidae) from the Oligocene of Germany. Journal of Ornithology 141(1):85-92.
  • Mayr, G. and C. Mourer-Chauviré. 1999. Unusual tarsometatarsus of a mousebird from the Paleogene of France and the relationships of Selmes Peters, 1999. J. Vertebr. Paleontol. 24(2):366-372.
  • Rich, P. V. & P. J. Haarhoff. 1985. Early Pliocene Coliidae (Aves, Coliiformes) from Langebaanweg, South Africa. Ostrich 57:20-41.
  • Rowan, M. K. 1967. A study of the colies of southern Africa. Ostrich 38:61-115.
  • Schifter, H. 1967. Beiträge zum Fortpflanzungsverhalten und der Jugendentwicklung der Mausvögel (Coliidae). Zoologische Jahrbücher (Syst.) 94:68-161.
  • Schifter, H. 1972. Die Mausvögel (Coliidae). Neue Brehm-Bucherei 459. Wittenberg Lutherstadt.
  • Schifter, H. 1985. Systematics and distribution of mousebirds (Coliidae). Proc. Internat. Symp. African Vertebrates, Bonn: 325-347.

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