The Frank M. Chapman Memorial Fund gives grants in aid of ornithological research and also postdoctoral
fellowships. While there is no restriction on who may apply, the Committee particularly welcomes and favors
applications from graduate students; projects in game management and the medical sciences are seldom
funded. Applications are reviewed once a year and must be submitted no later than 15 January, with all
supporting material. Application forms may be obtained from the Frank M. Chapman Memorial Fund
Committee, Department of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th
Street, New York, NY 10024-5192 USA.
No new postdoctoral fellowships were awarded. Fellowships to Richard Prum and Jeffery Woodbury were
extended through the 1990 year.
Two collection study grants for the 1990 year were awarded to Steven M. Goodman, for work on birds of
southeastern Madagascar, and to C. J. Hazevoet, for work on the avifauna of the Cape Verde Islands.
Forty-three Chapman grants for 1990, totaling $23,655, with a mean of $550, were awarded to the following:
Timothy Armstrong, Graded vocalizations of female Red-winged Blackbirds; Sharon Birks, Paternity assess-
ment in a promiscuous megapode; Donald Burr, Behavioral ecology of the Texas Scrub Jay, Aphelocoma
coerulescens texana; Alice Cassidy, Song variation and learning in Song Sparrows (Melospiza melodia); Ken Chan,
A comparative study of migrant and resident Silvereyes (Zosterops lateralis); Thomas Davisß Egg cooling and
wetting: necessary evils in Muscovy Duck egg incubation; Linda S. DeLay, Paternal investment of the co-
operative polyandrous Buteo galapagoensis; Maureen deZeeuw, Home range size and habitat utilization patterns
of the Sanderling in Oregon, and comparison with home range in California and Peru; Curt Dimmick, The
ontogeny of the cache-recovery foraging strategy in Clark's Nutcracker; David Duffyß Inventory of the Denver
Public Library's William Vogt Archives; Daniel Dunaief, Acoustical preferences of fledgling and adult Brown-
headed Cowbirds; Bruce Eichhorst, Genetic variation in the Western and Clark's grebes: color morphs or
species?; Richard Gerhardt, Breeding behaviorß home range, and food habits of the Black-and-white Owl;
Anne Goldizen, Mate-sharing by male Tasmanian Native Hens; Lynn Gordon, Roles of endogenous and
exogenous factors in settlement pattern of juvenile Western Sandpipers (Calidris mauri); Shannon Hackett,
Biogeographic analysis of Central American birds: a molecular perspective; Jiirgen Haffer, The correspondence
of Erwin Stresemann with Ernst Harterr and Otto Kleinschmidt; Paul Hendricksß Phenotypic variation of
clutch and egg size over a latitudinal gradient for an alpine passefine bird; Hussein Adan Isack, The biology
of the Greater Honeyguide (Indicator indicator); Fabian Jaksic, Dynamics of raptor guild structure: competition
or opportunism?; John Keane, Foraging ecology of Black-throated Gray Warblers; Frank Lambert, Effects of
selective logging on Bornean birds; Su Liying, Comparative feeding ecology of Red-crowned and White-
naped cranes in Northeast China; John McCarty, Foraging ecology of Tree Swallows: influence of competition
on diet and foraging site choice; Karen Metz, Why do male Marsh Wrens build so many nests?; David Moyer,
Community structure of forest birds in the Uzungwa Mountainsß Tanzania; Andrew Neill, Biological control
of a nest parasite in the House Wren; Christopher Norment, Comparative breeding biology of the Harris'
Sparrow and White-crowned Sparrow; Adrian O'Loghlen, Vocal ontogeny and the maintenance of bird dialects
in the Brown-headed Cowbird; Jay Pitocchelli, Geographic variation in Common Murres breeding in Alaska;
Bonnie Ploger, Slicing the parental investment pie: roles of parents and offspring in dividing the food delivered
to broods of Brown Pelicans; David Prescott, Body size, cold tolerance and differential migration in the
Evening Grosbeak; Gilles Seutin, Genetic relationships and species recognition in the redpolls; Dave Shutlet,
Floater Red-winged Blackbirds; Cynthia Sillsß Effects of supplemental feeding on asynchronous hatching in
Burrowing Owls; Bridget Stutchbury, Reproductive strategies and plumage color in Purple Martins; Cheryl
Tart, Population genetics and colonization patterns of Amakihis; Cheryl Trineß Wood Thrush population
dynamics in fragmented forests; George Wallaceß Delayed plumage maturation in the Ruby-crowned Kinglet;
Stephanie Warrenß Spring staging of Greenland White-fronted geese in south Iceland; David Westcott, Mate
choice, male competitionß and the function of song in a lekking flycatcher; Linda Whittingham, The allocation
of reproductive effort in male Red-winged Blackbirds; and Cottie Williamsß Faunal composition and changes
on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea.