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Need help obtaining several books and articles in Austin, TX



I need help getting my paws on the following books and paper, if anyone in
Austin owns or has access to them.

First, Charles Sibley, Phylogeny and Classification of Birds.  Only one
library copy in the entire city, checked out until 6/3.    I only need to
look up what he says about the relative positions of parrots and doves and
how he determined them.   I am already somewhat familiar with his method,
having seen it described elsewhere.

Second, Mindell, David P et al, "Avian Molecular Evolution and Systematics",
in David Mindell's book, "Phylogenetic relationships among and within select
avian orders based on mitochondrial DNA", pp 213-247.   This is also checked
out of the library due 6/3.   I need to make a copy of the article.

Third, "Four New Avian Mitochondrial Genomes Help Get to Basic Evolutionary
Questions in teh Late Cretaceous", MBE Advance Access (online), Molecular
Biology and Evolution, by G. L. Harrison et al (David Penny and M.J.
Phillips are variously treated as the primary author.)     This article is
only available to people who subscribe to Molecular Biology and Evolution,
or whose institutions give them online access to articles on its web site.
It has not been published in the hardbound journal as far as I could
determine from online table of contents, and it has not been indexed
anywhere.   Local university library provides access to articles in that
journal via a different database that doesn't include what the journal only
publishes on its web site.   They looked at four birds and one of them was a
parrot.

I'll appreciate any help!

Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, Texas
villandra@austin.rr.com