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Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
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Transcription
R.K.Selander,
1952
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Pie de la Cuesta, 20 ft., Guerrero, Mexico.
August 21. Scardapella cinca - few seen in pairs in bushes
in drier places near the laguna. Not common.
- pigeon sp. = Leptotila verregulsi
Several large pigeons with truncate
tails - very wild. In palms and also mangroves.
- Crotophaga sulciostria - common in bushes
beneath palms, especially in drier places where
cows are grazing.
- Chordeiles anticapennies - flushed one bird (an
immature, I believe) in grassy place near bog.
- Nyctidromus albicollis - one flying over
thorny bushes (mosquito-like) in grassy area.
hummingbird sp? - fair sized bird; mostly
blue in color. One seen.
- Chloroceryle americana - two birds flying along
edge of laguna.
- Centurus sp. - several on trunks of palms.
Need specimen for identification. Look a little
different than aurifrons? = chrysogenys
- Calocitta (formosa ok?) - one taken in large, thorny
bush; only one seen.
- Cassidix san-lasciana - common, especially
in mangroves in small groups.
- Campylorhynchus r. humulos - abundant in
many types of vegetation. (See their account.)
- Cassidix mexicanus - very common.
- Agelaius phoeniceus - several, in pairs - Not
common.