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Field notes 1950-2005

Scope and Content

Research notes on bird behavior in the field and aviary, particularly on junglefowl and weaverbirds. Countries of field research include the United States, Canada, Africa and Asia. Materials include raw data, photographs, maps, sonograms, graphs, charts, summaries of experiments and audio cassettes of bird songs and calls.
box 1, folder 7

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, weaver bird specimens 1987-1988

box 1, folder 22, box 7, folder 39

Aviary 1 & 3 maps, nest and egg records 1968-1969

box 1, folder 23

Weaver nest selection 1966

box 1, folder 24

Weaverbirds, LA Zoo 1980-1982

box 7, folder 29, 31, box 1, folder 25

Aviary 2 maps, nest and egg records 1968-1971

box 1, folder 26

Rubble nest raw data circa 1979

box 1, folder 35

Bills and plumages summary, UCLA & LA Zoo 1978-1983

box 1, folder 38

Bills and plumages graphs 1974-1979

box 1, folder 39

Weaverbirds plumages & bills, UCLA 1978-1979

box 7, folder 30, 33-34,40-44, box 1, folder 40

Bills and plumages 1960-1979

box 1, folder 43

Weavers, castration and testosterone treatments 2000

box 1, folder 49

Herbert A. Brown's Weaver Birds, testosterone 1961-1962

box 1, folder 50

Testosterone injection of weaverbirds 1962

box 1, folder 51-52

Weavers, Aviary 1 & 2, Herb Brown 1962

box 1, folder 53, 56-57

Weaverbirds, hormones 1959-1961

box 1, folder 54, 60

Weavers, Aviary 1 & 2, E.S. Tarvyd 1963

box 1, folder 61

Aviary 2, R. J. Barfield 1961

box 2, folder 3

Village weaver sonogram images and photos 1961-1997

box 2, folder 4

Field checklists and photos circa 1960s-1980s

box 2, folder 5

Ratite chicks sonograms, slides and photos 1957-2001

box 2, folder 14

Indoor Aviary 1, Barfield & Indoor Aviary 2, Frumkes 1960-1961

box 2, folder 15

Outdoor Aviary 1, Tarvyd 1959, 1961

box 2, folder 16

Outdoor Aviary 1, Tarvyd & Outdoor Aviary 2, Frumkes 1960-1962

box 2, folder 17

Aviary 1, Brian Kahn 1961

box 2, folder 18

Vivarium and Outdoor Aviary 2, Brooks 1960

box 2, folder 19, box 7, folder 58

Aviary 1 and Vivarium, Burrows 1959-1960

box 2, folder 21

Nest photographs undated

box 2, folder 24

Seattle data summaries of old age in weavers 1976-1980

box 2, folder 26, box 5, folder 7

Rubble nest experiment 1976-1977

box 3

Non Ploeceinae, East Africa 1973

Scope and Content

One box of index cards.
box 3

Weaverbirds comparative field study 1956-1957

Scope and Content

One box of index cards.
box 3

Ploceus (Textor) cucullatus 1956-1957

Scope and Content

One box of index cards.
box 3

Weaverbirds, Kenya 1978

Scope and Content

One box of index cards.
box 3

T.C.C., Senegal 1967

Scope and Content

One box of index cards.
box 3

Tapes of bird songs and calls 1977-2001

Scope and Content

Fourteen cassette tapes.
box 5, folder 1-6

Weaverbirds UCLA aviaries 1978-1980

box 5, folder 8-10

Village weaver branch and nest experiments 2003

box 5, box 7, folder 1

Red Junglefowl, San Diego Zoo 1962-1965, 1979-1992

Scope and Content

Box 5: Two shoe boxes of Collias' research note cards.
Box 7: Collias' notes, data and graphs.
box 6

Malibu Creek Lagoon 1984-1986

Scope and Content

Jonathon Alderfers' sketch book containing drawings of Malibu Lagoon birds and notes for publication in The Auk.
box 7, folder 8

Hypophysectomized chicks 1950-1951

box 7, folder 12-13, 19-20, 23, 26-27

Aviary 3 weekly reports 1973-1975

box 7, folder 14-15

Ploceidae taxonomy and nest building 1956-1986

box 7, folder 17-18, 21-22

Weaver nest color regulation 1974 April 1-1974 July 27

box 7, folder 24-25

Aviary 1-3 nest maps 1972-1973

box 7, folder 28, 45-50

Female weaver hormone experiments 1964-1967

box 7, folder 32

Aviary temperature and rainfall data 1968-1969

box 7, folder 35-36

Thyroxin experiments 1967, 1969

box 7, folder 37

Weaver seasonal control 1966-1969

box 7, folder 38

Effects of testosterone on female weavers 1970

box 7, folder 51

Aviary 2 1964

box 7, folder 52

Weaverbirds light experiments 1963-1964

box 7, folder 53

Aviary maps 1964

box 7, folder 54, box 8, folder 10-13, 15-17

California field trip maps, brochures and notes 1958-2005

box 7, folder 57

Weaver finch water economy charts undated

box 7, folder 60

Bird display 1966-1982

box 8, folder 4-8, 14, 18, 21

Bird and flower lists 1954-2003

box 8, folder 31

Red Junglefowl - Malaysia photos 1962, 2003

box 9, folder 24

Female wing length for different races of Ploceus cucullatus 1993

 

Manuscripts and publications 1950-2008

Scope and Content

Manuscripts and research articles by Nicholas E. Collias and colleagues. Materials include drafts of monographs co-authored with Elsie C. Collias including "Evolution of Nest Building in Weaverbirds" and "Nest Building and Bird Behavior."
box 1, folder 5

Evolution of Nest-Building in the Weaverbirds (Ploceidae) 1964

Scope and Content

By Nicholas E. Collias and Elsie C. Collias
The art work from this article was used for an exhibit in 2002.
box 9, folder 25-34, box 1, folder 8-10, 12, 16

Village Weaver Ploceus cucullatus 1974-1999

Scope and Content

By Nicholas E. Collias and Elsie C. Collias for The Birds of Africa. Materials also include reference literature and correspondence.
box 1, folder 18

Social Behavior and Vocal Repertoire of the Grey-Capped Social Weaver in East Africa 1980-1984

Scope and Content

By Nicholas E. Collias
Materials also include photocopies of articles by invitation for the revision of Sir Landsborough's A New Dictionary of Birds, British Onithologist's Union and others prepared for press such as "Old Age and Breeding Behavior in 14 to 20-Year Old African Weaverbirds" and "Social Behavior of Unconfined Red Junglefowl" by Collias and his wife, Elsie C. Collias.
box 1, folder 20

Comparison of Vocal Signals of Three Species of African Finches 1993-2004

Scope and Content

By Nicholas E. Collias and Elsie C. Collias
Materials also include "Seeking to Understand the Living Bird" by Nick and Elsie and "Inheritance of Egg-Color Polymorphism in the Village Weaver" by Elsie.
box 1, folder 21

Some Research Contributions to Ornithology and Bird Behavior circa 1988

Scope and Content

By Nicholas E. Collias
box 1, folder 42, 44-48, 55, 58

Testosterone Versus Psychological Castration in the Expression of Dominance, Territoriality and Breeding Behavior by Male Village Weavers 2000-2001

Scope and Content

By Nicholas E. Collias, Ronald J. Barfield and Edward S. Tarvyd
Folder 44 includes correspondence with The Auk Editor-in-Chief, Kimberly G. Smith. Folder 45 includes correspondence with Martin Daly, Executive Editor for Behaviour: An International Journal of Behavioural Biology.
box 1, folder 59

Weaver poster paper circa 2000

Scope and Content

By Nicholas E. Collias and Elsie C. Collias
box 2, folder 1

Biographical sketch and statement of research undated

Scope and Content

By Nicholas E. Collias
box 2, folder 6

Vocal Signals of the Village Weaver: Spectrographic Classification and the Code of Communication 2000-2001

Scope and Content

By Nicholas E. Collias
box 2, folder 7

Understanding Bird Language 2001

Scope and Content

By Nicholas E. Collias
box 2, folder 9

Comparison of Vocal Signals of Three Species of African Finches 2004

Scope and Content

By Nicholas E. Collias and Elsie C. Collias
box 2, folder 10

Native Foods and nutritional ecology of the red junglefowl in southeast Asia 1963, circa 2002

Scope and Content

By Nicholas E. Collias
Materials include Red Junglefowl field notes collected in Malay Peninsula of Thailand.
box 2, folder 11

The Role of American Zoologists and Ethologists in the Development of Ethology During the Three Decades Preceding the Formation of the ABS circa 1978

Scope and Content

By Nicholas E. Collias
box 4, folder 62, box 2, folder 23

Nest Building and Bird Behavior 1984

Scope and Content

By Nicholas E. Collias and Elsie C. Collias
Includes photo used for the cover of this book.
box 2, folder 25

Nest and Mate Selection by the Female Village Weaverbird 1978-1979

Scope and Content

Nicholas E. Collias' response to Peter Garson's critique in Animal Behavior of two of his articles on sexual selection in Ploceus cucullatus.
box 2, folder 38

The Importance of the Male, His Territory and His Nest in Mate Selection by the Female Village Weaver, a Tropical Passerine Bird 2007

Scope and Content

By Nicholas E. Collias, Florence McAlary McFarland, Catherine Jacobs, Janice McLean, and Cathleen Cox.
box 4, folder 1-23

Seeking to Understand the Living Bird 1996-1998

Scope and Content

Margaret Morse Nice Medal lecture by Nicholas E. Collias and Elsie C. Collias.
box 4, folder 25-61

On the Origin and Evolution of Nest Building by Passerine Birds (Passeriformes) 1990-1997

Scope and Content

By Nicholas E. Collias
Materials include related notes, tables, statistics, photos, slides, correspondence with Dr. Walter D. Koenig and Dr. Glenn E. Walsberg, Editors, The Condor and drafts of Collias' manuscript Ovenbirds (Furnariidae, Passeriformes) and the Origin of the Passerine Bird Nest.
box 4, folder 63

Argentine trip talk 1990

Scope and Content

By Nicholas E. Collias
box 4, folder 67

Size Breeding Colony Related to Attraction of Mates in a Tropical Passerine Bird 1969

Scope and Content

By Nicholas E. Collias and Elsie C. Collias
box 5, folder 11-32

The Male and the Nest in Mate Selection by a Female Weaverbird 1975-1977, 2001-2008

Scope and Content

By Nicholas E. Collias
Materials include research and editorial correspondence, data, multiple drafts, photos of male and female weaverbirds and their nests. Manuscript name changed to "The Male, His Territory and His Nest in Mate Selection by the Female Village Weaver, a Tropical Passerine Bird" with additional authors: Florence McAlary McFarland, Catherine Jacobs, Janice McClean and Cathleen Cox.
box 7, folder 4, 10, 61

Animal Behavior and Population Density 1958-1969

Scope and Content

By Nicholas E. Collias
box 7, folder 55

Weaverbirds public record 1958-2000

Scope and Content

Materials include outlines for talks and manuscripts by Nicholas E. Collias and Elsie C. Collias. Folder also contains clippings from magazines and newspapers.
box 7, folder 56

Some Behavioral Aspects of Energetics in the Village Weaverbird circa 1968

Scope and Content

By Nicholas E. Collias and Elsie C. Collias
box 8, folder 40

The Ecological Bases of Animal Behavior undated

Scope and Content

By Nicholas E. Collias
box 9, folder 16-22

Egg Color Inheritance in Weaverbirds circa 1987-1993

Scope and Content

By Elsie C. Collias
box 9, folder 37

An Ecological Classification of Animal Language 1958

Scope and Content

By Nicholas E. Collias
box 9, folder 23, 38-39

The Spectrographic Analysis of Sound Signals of the Domestic Fowl 1953

Scope and Content

Folder 23: One spectrogram photo and two photocopies of baby chick pleasure and distress notes used for article.
Folder 38-39: Article by Nicolas E. Collias and Martin Joos with related notes and publications on vocal communication in birds.
box 9, folder 40

Some Aspects of Comparative Sociology in Mammals circa 1952

Scope and Content

By Nicholas E. Collias, Illinois College, Jacksonville, Illinois.
box 9, folder 50, 52-53

Functions of Animal Sounds; An Ecological Classification of Animal Communication 1950-1960

Scope and Content

Manuscript by Nicholas E. Collias for submission to American Institute of Biological Sciences.
 

Correspondence 1933-2004

Scope and Content

Professional and personal letters to and from Collias.
box 1, folder 2

Members of the Section and Division of Animal Behavior and Sociobiology 1963-1964

Scope and Content

Letters related to the formation of an American Animal Behavior Society.
box 1, folder 6

Academic Press Executive Editor, Wildlife and Ecology 1999

box 1, folder 11, 13-14, 17

Stuart Keith, Department of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History 1994 August 24-2004 August 13

box 1, folder 15

Nigel Redman, Christopher Helm 2002 September 24

box 1, folder 21

Marty L. Morton, Occidental College 1981 October 23

Scope and Content

Correspondence includes reprints pertaining to the biology of Mountain White-crowned Sparrows on the breeding grounds.
box 1, folder 28

Cathleen Cox, Los Angeles Zoo 1994 March 28

Scope and Content

Correspondence includes Cox's article "Pair Formation in California Condors."
box 1, folder 29, 41

R.J. Barfield, Department of Biology, Livingston College 1978, 2000

Scope and Content

Folder 29 materials include Barfield's article, "Autoradiographic Localization of Androgen-Concentrating Cells in the Brain of the Male Domestic Fowl." Folder 41 includes Barfield's personal photos annotated by Collias.
box 1, folder 30

Oris Payton, Malibu Garden Club 1985 October 30

 

Teaching and research materials circa 1946-2004

Scope and Content

Collias taught Biology at Chicago City Junior College and Amherst College in 1946. From 1947-1951 he was a Zoology instructor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison where he began his research on the development of social behavior in birds. He joined the biology faculty at Illinois College, Jacksonville from 1953-1958 where he chaired the department. Finally, he moved to Los Angeles to work within UCLA's Department of Zoology for 27 years until he retired as Professor Emeritus in 1985. Materials include Collias' curriculum, assessments, syllabi, lecture and research notes, grant applications and related correspondence.
box 1, folder 3

Biology 1B 1976

Scope and Content

UCLA lecture notes for a class dealing with organisms and populations.
box 6, folder 27-29, box 7, folder 2-3, box 2, folder 27-29

Biology 274 Seminar on Animal Behavior 1972-1977, 1981-1983

box 2, folder 30

Zoology 264 Seminar on Animal Behavior 1971

box 6, folder 3-26, box 2, folder 31

Biology 129 The Behavior of Animals 1966-2003

Scope and Content

Folder 13 also includes exams and answer keys for Zoology 164, 237and 217.
box 2, folder 32-37

Biology 211 Animal Sociology 1978-1979

box 6, folder 32

Sociobiology Seminar 1975

box 7, folder 5

Biology 26 1947

box 7, folder 6

Research project notes 1976-1977

Scope and Content

Collias' notes on possible research projects and experiments for graduate students.
box 7, folder 7

General notes on behavior and genetics circa 1946

box 7, folder 9

Bioenergetics notes 1959-1967

box 7, folder 11

Concept of levels notes undated

box 7, folder 59

Weaverbird literature notes undated

box 1, folder 4

Activation of Copulatory Behavior by Androgen Implanted into the Preoptic Area of the Male Fowl circa 1967

Scope and Content

By Ronald J. Barfield
box 8, folder 1, box 9, folder 51, box 1, folder 27

National Science Foundation grant proposals 1952, 1980, 1984

Scope and Content

Box 1: Development and Physiology of Adaptive Behavior Patterns.
Box 8: Comparative Studies of Signal Function and Structure.
Box 9: Experimental Analysis of Vocal Communication Among Birds.
box 8, folder 29, 32-33

UCLA Faculty Grant Program proposal 1999-2004

Scope and Content

Folder 29: Analysis of Social Behavior in Birds.
Folder 32: Analysis of Social Behavior and Communication in Birds.
Folder 33-34: Analysis of Social Behavior and Vocal Communication in Birds.
box 8, folder 35-36, 38-39

UCLA Council on Research grant proposal 1991-1992, 1996-1999

Scope and Content

Analysis of Social Behavior and Vocal Communication in Birds.
box 9, folder 41

U.S. Government Awards under the Fulbright Act application 1954-1957

box 9, folder 62

National Institutes of Health Research and Training Grants application 1956

box 1, folder 34

Douglas Oliver, Professor, Harvard University 1961 March 22

Scope and Content

Letter attached to Oliver's article, "An Ethnographer's Method for Formulating Descriptions of 'Social Structure.'"
box 2, folder 2

George A. Bartholomew 1998

box 2, folder 8

Dr. Thomas E. Martin, Editor-In-Chief, The Auk 1997 April 7

box 4, folder 12

Jane G. Pisano, President and Director, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 2004 March 10

box 2, folder 22

Martin W. Schein, Smithsonian Institution Archives 1995 October 17

Scope and Content

Includes A Guide to the Records of the Animal Behavior Society 1965-1993.
box 6, folder 1

E.J. Kraus, Department of Botany, University of Chicago 1933 February

box 6, folder 30

Dr. V.E. Hall, Department of Physiology, UCLA 1966 November

box 7, folder 16

Nancy Masters, Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University 1975-1977

box 8, folder 2

Researchers of weaverbirds 1987-2002

box 8, folder 3

Researchers of the Red Junglefowl 1953-1996

box 8, folder 19

National Park Service 1971 April 23

box 8, folder 20, 25

Ed Tarvyd, Professor of Zoology, Santa Monica College 1980 December

box 8, folder 23-24, 26

Professor Henry J. Thompson, Chairman, UCLA Department of Biology 1972 November 15

Scope and Content

Attachments include Biographical Sketch of Elsie C. Collias.
box 8, folder 30

Ornithological Societies of North America 1994 April 14

box 8, folder 37

Publishers 1955-1976

Scope and Content

Materials concern Collias' book on the ecological foundations of animal behavior.
box 9, folder 54-60

Journal manuscript authors 1965-1995

Scope and Content

Correspondence concerning Collias' reviews of journal manuscripts for various publications including The Auk, The Condor and Animal Behaviour.
box 9, folder 61

Edwin W. Snider, Secretary, National Geographic Society 1984-1985

 

B.S. and Ph.D. notes, papers and thesis drafts 1930-1948

Scope and Content

Materials include Collias' academic papers, research notes and thesis drafts while pursuing his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in zoology at the University of Chicago.
box 1, folder 1

The Origin, Evolution and Classification of Birds circa 1938

Scope and Content

By Nicholas E. Collias
box 9, folder 35

Field studies of social behavior 1930-1948

Scope and Content

Collias' notes on various field experiments and research articles.
box 9, folder 36

Significance of social dominance in vertebrates 1930-1948

Scope and Content

Collias' notes on articles concerning social dominance. Materials include "Group Organization Among Vertebrates" paper by Collias' mentor, Professor W.C. Allee.
box 9, folder 42

Collias Review of Nicholson 1938

Scope and Content

By Nicholas E. Collias, University of Chicago
box 9, folder 43-49

Statistical Analysis of Factors Which Make for Success in Initial Encounters Between Hens circa 1940-1942

Scope and Content

PhD thesis drafts by Nicholas E. Collias, University of Chicago. Prior title: Aggressive Behavior Among Vertebrate Animals; Some Implications and a Statistical Analysis
 

Professional organization records 1958-2007

Scope and Content

Collias was active in a number of professional scientific societies concerning the behavior of animals, specifically birds. He was a founding member of the Animal Behavior Society (ABS) and in 1964-1965 he chaired the committee that wrote the ABS constitution. Materials include abstracts, programs, newsletters, studies, posters, surveys, lists of fellows, awards and honors.
box 1, folder 19

Animal Behavior Society Program and Abstracts 1993

box 1, folder 31

American Ornithologists' Union Program and Abstracts 1993

box 1, folder 32

Animal Behavior Society abstract transmittal form 1993

box 1, folder 33

American Ornithologists' Union fellows list, photo and abstract form 1992-1993

box 1, folder 36

Animal Behavior Society abstracts 1987

box 1, folder 37

Pan African Ornithological Congress Programme & Abstracts 1980

box 2, folder 13

International Ornithological Congress application and poster 1990, 1998

box 2, folder 20

Cooper Ornithological Program and ALBS paper 1961

box 4, folder 64

International Ornithological Congress Program 1962

box 6, folder 31

Southern California Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Study Group 1982

box 8, folder 9

Entomological societies' newsletters circa 1989

box 8, folder 27-28

Animal Behavior Society: Autobiographical Surveys 1996

box 9, folder 1-15, box 4, folder 23-24

Animal Behavior Society presentation materials 1993-1994

Scope and Content

Animal Behavior Society talk by Nicholas E. Collias and Elsie C. Collias. Copies of slides, graphs, tables, outline and lecture. These materials were also used for their 1994 American Ornithologists' Union presentation.
box 8, folder 22, box 6, folder 2

Awards and honors 1958-2007

Scope and Content

Awards and honors from various organizations including UCLA Emeriti Association, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, American Institute of Biological Sciences, Cooper Ornithological Society, American Ornithologists' Union and the Animal Behavior Society.
 

United States Army Air Forces publications 1943-1945

Scope and Content

After Collias earned his PhD in 1942, he was drafted into the U.S. Army where he spent three and a half years. He rose from the rank of private to first lieutenant and finished his Army career as a medical research physiologist. These publications include Collias' annotations.
box 4, folder 65

Outline of Neuropsychiatry in Aviation Medicine circa 1944

box 4, folder 65

Notes on Men and Groups Under Stress of Combat: For the Use of Flight Surgeons in Operational Units 1945

box 4, folder 65

How Can the Flight Surgeon Better Treat Anxiety? 1945

box 4, folder 65

Care of Personnel in the Wet Tropics 1944

box 4, folder 65

Living Off the Land circa 1943

box 4, folder 65

Living Off the Southwest Pacific Tropics 1944

box 4, folder 66

High Altitude Frostbite 1943

box 4, folder 66

Aviation Physiologists Bulletin 1945

box 4, folder unknown container, folder 66

Physiology of Flight: Human Factors in the Operation of Military Aircraft 1945

box 4, folder 66

Your Body in Flight 1943