SPECIAL FEATURE:
Interactions between avian brood parasites and their hosts
Takasu F & Nakamura H
Introduction ............................................................................................................ 1
Moskat C
Common Cuckoo parasitism in Europe: behavioural adaptations, arms race and the
role of metapopulations ............................................................................................. 3
Stokke BG, Moksnes A & Roskaft E
The enigma of imperfect adaptations in hosts of avian brood parasites ...................... 17
Nakamura H, Miyazawa Y & Kashiwagi K
Behavior of radio-tracked Common Cuckoo females during the breeding season in
Japan ........................................................................................................................ 31
Andou D, Nakamura H, Oomori S & Higuchi H
Characteristics of brood parasitism by Common Cuckoos on Azure-winged Magpies,
as illustrated by video recordings .............................................................................. 43
Tanaka KD & Ueda K
Signal exploitation by parasitic young in birds: a new categorization of manipulative
signals ...................................................................................................................... 49
Kilner RM
The evolution of virulence in brood parasites ................................................................................................................................. 55
Takasu F
A theoretical consideration on co-evolutionary interactions between avian brood parasites
and their hosts ........................................................................................................ 65
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Kawakami K & Fujita M
The distribution of the Malayan Night Heron Gorsachius melanolophus in the Yaeyama and
Miyako Islands, southern Japan ............................................................................... 73
Raju AJS, Rao SP & Rangaiah K
Pollination by bats and birds in the obligate outcrosser Bombax ceiba L. (Bombacaceae), a
tropical dry season flowering tree species in the Eastern Ghats forests of India ........ 81
Hino T
Resident males of small species dominate immigrants of large species in heterospecific,
winter bird flocks ................................................................................................... 89
SHORT COMMUNICATIONS
Fujita G & Higuchi H
A large-scale clumping pattern in breeding Barn Swallows ............................ 95