Peters on the Golden Warblers A Revision of the Golden Warblers. Dendroica petechia (Linne) James L. Peters
1927; Oxford University Press; Volume: 44; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/4074743
ISSN1938-4254
Autores Tópico(s)Species Distribution and Climate Change
ResumoBarbour and Peters on Two More New Birds from Cuba.•--Before we have had time to recover from our astonishment at the discovery of the remarkable new Wren in the Zapata peninsula of Cuba, Dr. Barbour's collector, Fermin Z. Cervera, has visited the locality again and has secured a Rail and a Finch both of which, like the Wren, are not only new species but cannot be referred to any known genera.Dr. Barbour obtained the specimens from Mr. Cervera on a recent trip to Cuba and in conjunction with Mr. J. L. Peters has published descriptions of them.The Rail they name Cyanolimnas cerverai (p.95) and the Finch Torreornis inexpectata (p.96).The Rail is said to resemble Pardirallus rytirhynchus in color and to suggest relationship to the fossil Nesotrochis in structure.As to the relationship of the Finch the authors are silent, but promise a later paper which will deal with the affiliations of both birds.The discovery of three such distinct birds as these would be remarkable anywhere today but in an island supposedly so well known as Cuba it is astonishing.--W.S. Peters on the Golden Warblers.•--Mr.Peters uses the name Golden Warblers for the resident birds of the West Indies, Dendroica petechia and ß its races, including D. ruficapilla regarded by some as specifically distinct.These are contrasted with the migrant Dentire,ca aestiva group--the Yellow Warblers--and the Mangrove Warblers, D. rufi#ula, D. erithacorides and D. bryantL
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