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RE: Bird text query

To: <majestic_cheese@yahoo.com>, <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Subject: RE: Bird text query
From: "Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 08:14:29 -0400
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> Larry Dunn
>
> Would someone please recommend a good recent textbook
> on birds that focuses on their dinosaur origins, if
> there is such a bird (pardon the expression)?  Thanks.

Not precisely what you are looking for, but:

Dingus, L. & T. Rowe.  1998.  The Mistaken Extinction: Dinosaur Evolution
and the Origin of Birds.  W. H. Freeman Press.

Chapters 9-13 focus on non-avian dinosaurs and cladistics and bird origins,
chapters 14-17 concern post-_Archaeopteryx_ bird history and systematics,
including the big extinctions induced by humans.

                Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
                Vertebrate Paleontologist
Department of Geology           Director, Earth, Life & Time Program
University of Maryland          College Park Scholars
                College Park, MD  20742
http://www.geol.umd.edu/~tholtz/tholtz.htm
http://www.geol.umd.edu/~jmerck/eltsite
Phone:  301-405-4084    Email:  tholtz@geol.umd.edu
Fax (Geol):  301-314-9661       Fax (CPS-ELT): 301-405-0796

References:
- Bird text query
  - From: Larry Dunn <majestic_cheese@yahoo.com>