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Cherrie on Trinidad Birds On a Second Small Collection of Birds from the Island of Trinidad George K. Cherrie

1908; Oxford University Press; Volume: 25; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/4070548

1938-4254

Plant and animal studies

Recent Literature. '7 aeCherrie on Trinidad Birds.\-As the result of a month's collecting, in March, 1907, in which time 300 specimens, representing 96 species, were collected by him, Mr. Cherrie records five species as new to the list of Trinidad birds.One of these species, Chetura cinereicauda, is erroneously given, having been previously collected and recorded by Mr. F. M. Chapman.Furthermore, the specimens on which the latter record is based, and with which Mr. Cherrie's bird will doubtless be found to agree, prove to be not the true cinereicauda but a new species which Dr. Hellmayr has recently described as Chetura chapmani.Of the remaining four species, two had previously been taken on the small island of Monos, only a few hundred yards from Trinidad and, as Mr. Cherrie remarks, so close to the larger island that birds of the weakest flight might readily pass back and forth.Catharus melpomene costaricensis and Leptopogon superciliaris, represent genera as well as species entirely new to Trinidad, and have never been taken on the neighboring small islands,The Trinidad Megarhynchus which Mr. Cherrie recently proposed to call M. pitangua parvirostris is now considered doubtfully separable, on account of the variation in size of bill found among the continental birds.This list is annotated with remarks on abundance, and exact localities and dates of many specimens are given.The colors of the changeable parts of many species are recorded, and there are also interesting notes on habits, song and nesting -W.DrW.M.