Contents

Introduction

Accidents to Migrating Birds in early October, 1954

Acknowledgments

Notes on the Species Killed at Topeka

Randomness of the Sample

Number of Migrants

Differential Migration of Sex- and Age-classes

Molt in Relation to Migration

Size Differences according to Sex and Age

Computations of Longevity and Survival

Processing of Samples

Summary

Literature Cited

Transcriber's Notes:

University of Kansas Publications

Museum of Natural History

Volume 10, No. 1, pp. 1-44, 6 figures in text, 2 tables

———September 12, 1956———

Studies of Birds
Killed in Nocturnal Migration

BY
HARRISON B. TORDOFF AND ROBERT M. MENGEL

University of Kansas
Lawrence
1956

University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History

Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, A. Byron Leonard, Robert W. Wilson

Volume 10, No. 1, pp. 1-44, 6 figures in text, 2 tables
Published September 12, 1956

University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

PRINTED BY
FERD VOILAND, JR., STATE PRINTER
TOPEKA, KANSAS
1956