The Paint-billed Crake Breeding in Costa Rica Author(s):L David M. Watson and Brett W. Benz We report a recent observation from southern Costa Rica of the Paint-billed Crake (Neocrex erythrops), a little known species from eastern and northern South...

ASPECTS OF THE BIOLOGY OF THE HORNED SCREAMER IN SOUTHWESTERN COLOMBIA Author(s): LUIS G. NARANJO An isolated population of the Homed Screamer (Anhima cornuta) in the Cauca Valley, Colombia, was studied intensively during 1983-1984. Variation of...

[order] Charadriiformes | [family] Sternidae | [latin] Gelochelidon nilotica | [UK] Gull-Billed Tern | [FR] Sterne hansel | [DE] Lachseeschwalbe | [ES] Gaviotín de Pico Negro | [IT] Sterna zampenere | [NL] Lachstern Subspecies and global...

The nest and eggs of Tolmomyias poliocephalus Author(s): F. HAVERSCHMIDT The tropical New World flycatchers of the genus Tolnzomyias are small and dull colored, resembling somewhat those of the much better known and more northward ranging genus...

Relationship of Veniliornis Cassini Chocoensis and V. Cassini Caquetanus with V. Affinis Author(s): DAVID L. PEARS & MAnu.; A. P.;Enc In reviewing species of the genus Veniliornis for a forthcoming book on the world’s woodpeckers I was...

GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION AND SPECIES LIMITS IN MIDDLE AMERICAN WOODNYMPHS (THALURANIA) Author(s): PATRICIA ESCALANTE-PLIEGO AND A. TOWNSEND PETERSON We analyzed geographic variation in morphology and plumage coloration in male woodnymphs of the genus...

Ecological relationships between feather mites (Acari) and wild birds of Emberizidae (Aves) in a fragment of Atlantic Forest in northeastern Brazil Author(s): Rachel M. de Lyra-Neves Angela M. Isidro de Farias & Wallace R. Telino-Junior The...

The Blue-backed Tanager (Cyanicterus cyanicterus), a genus new to Venezuela, with notes on its plumages Author(s): KENNETH C. PARKES The little-known Blue-backed Tanager, Cyanicterus cyanlcterus (Vieillot), sole member of its genus, has been...