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Acknowledgments
We thank the numerous people who assisted us in our respective studies in Florida from 1967 to 1994. The following kindly provided measurements of specimens in their collections: P. R. Colston (Bird Group, British Nat. Hist. Mus., Tring), G. M. Bolen and N. K. Johnson (Mus. Vert. Zool., Univ. of California, Berkeley), M. R. Browning (U.S. Natl. Mus. Nat. Hist.), J. R. Navas (Mus. Argentino Cien. Nat., Buenos Aires), M. Nores (Centro Zool. Aplicada, Cordoba, Argentina), J. V. Remsen and M. Marín A. (Louisiana State Univ. Mus. Zool.), M. B. Robbins (Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.), P. Unitt (San Diego Nat. Hist. Mus.), and D. M. Webb and R. O. Prum (Univ. of Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist.). Collection materials were made available to PWS by M. K. LeCroy and G. F. Barrowclough (Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.), R. B. Payne and J. G. Hinshaw (Mus. Zool., Univ. of Michigan), R. A. Paynter (Mus. Comp. Zool., Harvard Univ.), F. C. Sibley (Peabody Mus., Yale Univ.), and D. E. Willard (Field Mus. Nat. Hist.). L. F. Kiff (West. Found. Vert. Zool.) and M. R. Browning (U.S. Natl. Mus. Nat. Hist.) loaned specimens, and M. E. McGhee (Univ. of Georgia Mus. Nat. Hist.) graciously housed and handled shipping of materials on loan. W. S. Clark provided some unpublished data, and S. L. L. Gaunt (Borror Lab. Bioacoustics, Ohio State Univ.) furnished the sonogram. We thank D. J. Forrester for use of unpublished data on parasites and diseases. The entire manuscript was enhanced by thorough reviews by S. R. Beissinger, C. B. Kepler, and C. S. Robbins and by reviews of selected sections by F. B. Gill, A. F. Poole, R. S. Ridgely, K. B. Russell, and C. W. Thompson. We thank B. J. Fancher for typing and A. F. Poole and K. B. Russell for editing the manuscript.
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