A natural history of the ducks

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Identifier: naturalhistoryof01phi (find matches)
Title: A natural history of the ducks
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Phillips, John C. (John Charles), 1876-1938 Benson, Frank Weston, 1862-1951, ill Brooks, Allan, 1869-1946, ill Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927, ill Grönvold, Henrik, 1858-1940, ill
Subjects: Ducks
Publisher: Boston New York : Houghton Mifflin Company Cambridge : The Riverside Press
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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nd it appears to be common at Jalapa (Ferrari-Perez,1886) and in Vera Cruz (Trujillo, British Museum). According to Baird, Brewer and Ridgway (1884)it occurs also in Hidalgo, and specimens collected there are in the Museum of Comparative Zoology.The southernmost record for Mexico is that of Sumichrast (Lawrence, 1875) for Tapana, Chiapas. The species is abundant in Central America, apparently, especially so on the Pacific Coast. It hasCentral been recorded for Guatemala (Salvin and Godman, 1897-1904; J. J. Rodriguez, 1909- America io) and Salvin (1865) found it there on the west coast at Acapam and Huamachal (British Museum). There are no records of its occurrence in Yucatan, though it has been takenon Cozumel Island, off the coast (Salvin, 1889, 1890). In Honduras it was found at Lake Yojoa(G. C. Taylor, 1860) and it has been recorded also from Sucuija and San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua(Nutting, 1885). Carriker (1910) states that it is abundant on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica, though
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Map 15. Distribution of Black-bellied Tree Duck (Dendrocygna autumnalis) BLACK-BELLIED TREE DUCK 159 quite rare elsewhere in that country. In Costa Rica also it has been recorded for Guanacaste (von Frant-zius, 1869), Cartago (Boucard, 1878), Rio Frio and Rio Escondido (Richmond, 1893), between Be-bedero and Miravalles (Underwood, 1896), La Palma (Nutting, 1882) and Nicoya (Arce, BritishMuseum). In Panama it was found at Loma del Leon (Salvadori and Festa, 1899; P. L. Sclaterand Salvin, 1864), at Agua Dulce (Salvin and Godman, 1897-1904) and in the Canal Zone (Stone,1918). The southernmost record for the species appears to be that of Wood (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci.Phila., 1860, p. 197) for the Truando River, Colombia, near the Panama border, but this is held byF. M. Chapman (1917) to refer to Dendrocygna discolor. The present species has been recorded as accidental in the island of Jamaica (Gosse, 1847; Newton,1881; Cory, 1889). The statement that it is common and breeds in Porto Rico (Ta

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