Elizabeth Procter-Gray, Richard T. Holmes, Adaptive Significance of Delayed Attainment of Plumage in Male American Redstarts: Tests of Two Hypotheses, Evolution, Vol. 35, No. 4 (Jul., 1981), pp. 742-751
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