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A monograph focusing on the Browns' long-term study of colonial nesting in cliff swallows (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) along the Platte River in western Nebraska. The book addresses the costs and benefits of group living, alternative reproductive tactics such as brood parasitism and extrapair mating, the demographic consequences of coloniality, and hypotheses for why colony size varies. The book is the most detailed study of animal coloniality ever done and should appeal to ornithologists, behavioral ecologists, evolutionary biologists, and parasitologists.