This is the fourth paper of a 4-part series detailing the longevity records of marked North American birds. The previous three papers can be found in the Journal of Field Ornithology, Volumes 53 and 54. Prior to this series only one definitive paper (Kennard 1975) had been written on North American taxa. Records for 84 taxa are included in this paper. Thirty are birds older than those listed by Kennard. Thirty-nine are new records and 9 are those listed in Kennard.

Office of Migratory Bird Management Bird Banding Laboratory Laurel, Maryland 20708 USA Biology Department Columbia Union College Takoma Park, Maryland 20912 USA REGISTROS DE LONGEVIDAD DE AVES DE NORTE AMERICA: COEREBINAE A ESTRILDIDAE Sinopsis.--Este trabajo es el filtimo de una serie de 4, sobre registros de longevidad a base de anillamientos de aves de Norte Am6rica, que suplementan el trabajo de Kennard (1975). Los trabajos previos (3) fueron publicados en los volumenes 53 y 54 del Journal of Field Ornithology. E1 actual trabajo cubre 84 especies. Treinta y nueve son nuevos informes de longevidad, 30 tiehen una longevidad mayor y 9 son similares a lo que informa Kennard. This paper is the fourth in a 4-part series supplementing and extending an earlier summary by Kennard (1975). It is based on an extensive review of the literature and a detailed examination of the records in the Bird Banding Laboratory (hereafter BBL), Laurel, Maryland. A more detailed account of the method and changes in format from Kennard is given by Clapp et al. (1982). Data listed in the table of longevities (Table 2) are presented in the same format as in the preceding papers in this series (Clapp et al. 1982, 1983). The estimated minimum age is calculated by assuming a hatching date of 1 June as was done by Kennard (1975). The number of recoveries listed for each species includes all reports processed through August 1985. The figure for the number of birds banded is a composite derived from several sources (Clapp et al. 1982) and is an inexact, but close, approx- imation of the total number banded since the inception of bird banding in North America. Table 1 lists the BBL codes for age, sex and those describing how the bird was obtained. Parentheses around an age and/ or sex indicate a change from the original record based upon either recapture or the current BBL age codes. Symbols given before the common name in Table 2 indicate modifi- cations of Kennard's (op. cit.) work. A # indicates that this is the same TABLE 1. Codes used in list of 1ongevities of North American birds (Table 2). Codes for age and sex and their verbal equivalent A AHY ASY F Adult HY = Hatching year M = Male After hatching year I = Immature S or SA = Subadult After second year J = Juvenile SY = Second year Female L = Local U = Unknown Codes for "How Recovered" 00 = Found dead 01 = Shot 03: Caught due to injury 04 = Caught by or due to trap or snare other than those used for catching birds 10 = Died during banding operations 12 = Caught by or due to cat 14 = Struck or struck by motor vehi- cle 16 = Collected as scientific specimen or for scientific study 28 = Caught by hand 45 = Found dead or injured on high- way 57 -- Caught due to entanglement in anything other than fishing gear 89 = Trapped and released by bander in differ- ent 10-minute block from where originally banded 97 = Miscellaneous. Method of recovery not cov- ered by codes 99 = Trapped and released by bander in same 10-minute block where originally banded bird listed by Kennard (op. cit.). The estimated minimum age for these birds is the same as in Kennard's paper. An * denotes a bird of greater age than that given in the original list, and two ** indicate a species not listed by Kennard. An *# before three entries (Song Sparrow, Spot- breasted Oriole, and Pine Grosbeak) indicates that these are the same birds listed by Kennard, but are listed with greater ages. The increased age of the Spot-breasted Oriole resulted from a recapture subsequent to its listing by Kennard. The other two were errors we discovered upon examination of the original data. Three entries (Fox Sparrow, Boat-tailed Grackle, and Purple Finch) that lack a symbol preceding the English name are replacements for entries in Kennard that proved to be invalid and are younger than the birds listed there. Thirty (35.7%) of the records for the 84 forms listed in Table 2 are birds older than those listed by Kennard (op. cit.). Thirty-nine (46.4%) are for taxa not listed in the original paper. Nine (10.7%) of the records represent longevities that have not been exceeded since publication of the original paper. We encourage bird banders to submit return records for ages greater than those listed to the BBL (Att'n: M. K. Klimkiewicz). We also request new longevity records for those species documented in the earlier accounts of Clappet al. (1982, 1983) and Klimkiewicz et al. (1983). Any North American species longevity records not documented in these accounts and greater than four years old are also welcome. 32O] M. K. Klimkiewicz and A. G. Futcher < < < 4 J. Field Ornithol. Summer 1987 vol. 5s, o.  Longevity: Coerebinae through Estrildidae [321 M. K. Klimkiewicz and A. G. Futcher j. Field Ornithol. Summer 1987 Vol. 58, No. 3 Longevity.' Coerebinae through Estrildidae [3 2 3 ! ! o ,< I 0  0 e, O0 '- ,70 o o o o, o, ! ! ! Vol. 58, Xo.  Longevity: Coerebinae through Estrildidae [3 2 5 -I 326] M. K. Klimkiewicz and A. G. Futcher J. Field Ornithol. Summer 1987 o o o, o o o o, i No.  Longevity: Coerebinae through Estrildidae [327 328] M. K. Klimkiewicz and A. G. Futcher j. Field Ornithol. Summer 1987 vol. 8, No.  Longevity: Coerebinae through Estrildidae [329 i i i i 3 3 O] M.K. Klimkiewicz and A. G. Futcher J. Field Ornithol. Summer 1987 . <.5 < < < <.5   0  vol. 58, No.  Longevity: Coerebinae through Estrildidae [3 31 o o 332] M. K. Klimkiewicz and A. G. Futcher J. Field Ornithol. Summer 1987 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Many individuals including those listed in Table 2 supplied us with original banding or recovery data. We thank them and others for their help. Charles E. Corchran, Phil Walters, Richard Mewaldt, Marguerite Baumgartner, Gordon Loery were particularly helpful in supplying data for this part of the supplement. Personnel of the Bird Banding Laboratory (BBL), Office of Migratory Bird Management, aided us in locating and verifying longevity records at the BBL. We particularly thank Nancy G. Mullis, whose incomparable knowledge of the recovery files saved us many hours of work, George M. Jonkel, Chief, BBL, for his assistance and encouragement, and Bonnie Seering, for her perseverance in typing the manuscript. Sam Droege, Danny Bystrak and Robert I. Smith kindly reviewed the manuscript. LITERATURE CITED CL^'', R. B., M. K. KLIMKIEWICZ, AND J. H. KENN^RD. 1982. Longevity records of North American birds: Gaviidae through Alcidae. J. Field Ornithol. 53:81-124. --, AND A. G. FUTCHER. 1983. Longevity records of North American birds: Coiumbidae through Paridae. J. Field Ornithol. 54:123-137. KENN^RD, J. H. 1975. Longevity records of North American birds. Bird-Banding 46: 55-73. KLIMKIEWICZ, M. K., R. B. CLAPP, AND A. G. FUTCHER. 1983. Longevity records of North American birds: Remizidae through Parulinae. J. Field Ornithol. 54:287-294. Received 19 Sept. 1986; accepted 25 Nov. 1986.