Autumnal Display of Northern Downy Woodpecker
1942; Oxford University Press; Volume: 59; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/4079571
ISSN1938-4254
Autores Tópico(s)Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
ResumoThe following is a description of a bird in juvenal plumage, taken alive in Cuba during the first week in January, 1941:--Top of head dusky, the feathers edged with whitish; facial disc sooty, freckled with white above and with a distinct crescent-shaped mark behind eye; ear-tufts small but apparent directly above the eyes; rest of upper parts dusky brown, regularly barred with whitish or buffy white, the wings blackish with ochraceous and buffy white spots and bars; under parts buffy white, regularly barred with light dusky; tail barred dusky and buffy white; iris yellow; bill horn-blue, the tip whitish; feet ash-gray.Credit for the discovery of the first nest of the Devil Owl must go to my friend Gast6n Villalba, of Havana, who after repeated inquiries was shown a nest on or about December 1, 1940, near Laguna la Deseada south of San Cristobal, Pinar del Rio.The two eggs were laid on the ground in the middle of a small dump of 'palmas canas.'The 'nest' was composed merely of a few shreds of palmleaf.Unfortunately the eggs were subsequently destroyed, probably by pigs from a nearby farm.I had previously been informed by some 'guajiros' both in Cuba and in the Isle of Pines that these owls nest on the ground, but did not believe them, and at the time suspected that the 'Carabo' (•Isio fiammeus) nested in Cuba.Nests are now known of all but four Cuban species (Chondrohierax wilsonii, Cyanolimnas cerverai, Ferminia cerverai and Dendroica pityophila), although numerous others have not as yet been found breeding within the confines of the Republic.--JAMzsBo•D, •Icademy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Saw-whet Owl in Centre County, Pennsylvanla.--On December 11, 1941, an adult female Saw-whet Owl, Cryptoglaux acadica acadica, was found wounded, by Mr. T. R. Leglet near Snowshoe,
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