
%0 Journal Article
%A Burton, TC 
%A Martin, AA 
%T Analysis of hybridization between Black-backed and White-backed Magpies in South-eastern Australia
%J Emu
%D 1976/03/01
%V 76
%N 1
%P 30-36
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/MU9760030
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/MU9760030 
%X A method for quantitative analysis of the variation in dorsal patterns of magpies was developed. Several transects across the zone between fully black-backed and fully white-backed Magpies in Victoria and south-eastern New South Wales were made and the dorsal patterns of all adult birds seen were recorded. The phenomenon is best interpreted as a zone of overlap with hybridizatlon. Further data are needed to elucidate the dynamics of this zone; in particular, it is not clear whether the zone is stationary or moving southward. 
