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Notes on some American birds, chiefly neotropical

Outram Bangs

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Notes on some American birds, chiefly neotropical

by Outram Bangs

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Published 1921 by Printed for the Museum in Cambridge, Mass .
Written in English

Subjects:

Birds -- Central America.

Edition Notes

The Physical Object
Other titles	Notes on American birds
Statement	by Outram Bangs and Thomas E. Penard.
Series	Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College -- v. 64, no. 4, Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology -- v. 64, no. 4
Contributions	Penard, Thomas Edward, 1878-1936.
Pagination	P. [365]-397 ;
Number of Pages	397
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL19221540M

Every year in late summer, migrating Wilson's Phalaropes put on an amazing show as enormous flocks amass on salty lakes of the West. There they spin round and round in the nutrient-rich waters, creating whirlpools that stir up invertebrates that will fuel their migration to South America. Females are rich peachy and gray, and are more colorful than the males. Females court and defend male. In his article on "Birds," in the new edition of the "Encyclopædia Britannica" (now publishing), Professor Newton points out, that the number of peculiar genera of Nearctic birds is much less than in each of the various sub-divisions of the Neotropical region; and that the total number of genera is also less, while the bulk of them are common.

Birds of a neotropical green city: an up-to-date review of the avifauna of the city of Xalapa with additional unpublished records Article (PDF Available) in Urban Ecosystems 17(4) May with. The series of Neotropical birds has been rendered wonderfully complete by the addition of the collections of Dr. Sclater and of Messrs. Salvin and Godman; whilst through the hearty co-operation of Professor Baird, on behalf of the United-States National Museum, numerous valuable North- American birds have been received during the past year.

A large variety of materials have been used in their manufacture by different peoples at different times - painted linen and shavings of stained horn by the Egyptians, gold and silver by the Romans, rice-paper by the Chinese, silkworm cocoons in Italy, the plumage of highly coloured birds in South America, wax, small tinted shells, &c. At the beginning of the 8th century the French, who. The swallow-tailed kite (Elanoides forficatus) is a pernine raptor which breeds from the southeastern United States to eastern Peru and northern is the only species in the genus North and Central American breeders winter in South America where the species is resident year round. It was formerly named Falco forficatusClass: Aves.

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Gulf Coast states, all of Florida into the Everglades, the Caribbean islands and parts of Central America. It is a well-camouflaged, solitary brown bird that Class: Aves.