Check List of the Birds of Illinois
1923; Oxford University Press; Volume: 40; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/4073742
ISSN1938-4254
Tópico(s)Fire effects on ecosystems
ResumoRecent Literature. LJa•.The collection, consisting of some 700 skins representing 159 species was obtained during a period of seventeen days with the aid of Indian shooters and is stated to be not fully representative, as ornithology was secondary to other activities, while the illness of Mr. Underwood, who was expected to pay particular attention to this field, prevented further prosecution of bird work.The following forms are described as new: Jacamerops aurea penardi (p.200), Carrillo, Costa Rica; Phaethornis adolphi nelsoni (p.204) for P. a. fraterculus, preoccupied; Threnetes ruekeri dariensis (p.204) Mr. Sapo; Chalybura buffoni micans (p.204) Mr. Sapo; Phaenostictus mac•eannani chocoanus (p.208); Sclerurus mexicanus anomalus (p.209); Pipra erythrocephala actinosa (p.214); Craspedoprion olivaceus badins (p.216) and Oxyruncus brooksi (p.220) all from Mr. Sapo;Chlo-.rophanesspiza arguta (p.225) Divala, W. Panama.and Tangara inornata languens (p.227) Loma del Leon.'VoL 1023 J Recent Literature.159 English names only are used so that all of the complications of nomenß clature which have no place in such a list are avoided.We congratulate the Illinois Society and Mr. Gault upon.an admirable piece of work which came out just in time for many of the visiting members of the A. 0. U. to take copies home with them as souvenirs of the first 'Chicago meeting of the Union.--W. S. Chapin on the Genus SteganuraJ--Mr.Chapin has made a careful study of the long4ailed Paradise Whydabs examining all of the material in the principal museums of America and Europe.He comes to the conclusion that there are two perfectly distinct species, Steganura paradisaea and S. aucupum the ranges of which overlap in the region south of the
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