Studies of Birds Killed in Nocturnal MigrationTordoff, Harrison Bruce
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Studies of Birds Killed in Nocturnal Migration
Tordoff, Harrison Bruce
Birds -- Migration
_Dendroica magnolia._ Magnolia Warbler.--Weights: 1 adult
female, 9.0, moderately fat; 2 immature females, 7.9, 10.3,
moderately fat and fat.
_Dendroica c. caerulescens._ Black-throated Blue
Warbler.--Weights: 2 immature males, 13.8, 14.1, excessively
fat; 1 immature female, 11.4, fat. This species is rare in
Kansas. Although its breeding range is almost entirely east
and north of Kansas, records in files at the University of
Kansas show that more specimens have been taken in western
than in eastern Kansas.
_Dendroica c. coronata._ Myrtle Warbler.--Weight: 1 immature
female, 11.6, fat.
_Dendroica pensylvanica._ Chestnut-sided Warbler.--Weights:
2 immature females, 8.1, 10.0, little fat. Only one specimen
from Kansas had been preserved previously although the
species is a regular transient in small numbers throughout
the state.
_Dendroica castanea._ Bay-breasted Warbler.--Weights: 1
adult male, 19.2, excessively fat; 1 adult female, 11.7,
little fat; 1 immature female, 11.2, moderately fat. Only 5
specimens of this warbler have been taken previously in
Kansas, 4 in spring (Ruth, 1952:18-19) and 1 in fall.
_Dendroica p. palmarum._ Palm Warbler.--Weights: 2 immature
males, 9.9, 10.9, moderately fat; 2 unsexed immatures, 9.1,
9.4, moderately fat. This species has been taken in fall in
Kansas only once before (KU 26353, taken by Wetmore, at
Lawrence, on October 5, 1907), but probably occurs regularly
in both spring and fall migration.
_Seiurus a. aurocapillus._ Oven-bird.--Weights: 2 adult
males, 22.5, 23.8, fat and very fat; 14 immature males, mean
21.89 ± .66, S. D. 2.46, fat to very fat; 8 adult females,
mean 21.4 (18.3-25.7), moderately fat to fat; 6 immature
females, mean 18.2 (15.6-20.0), moderately fat to fat.
_Seiurus noveboracensis notabilis._ Northern
Water-thrush.--Weights: 3 immature males, 18.1, 18.6, 22.2,
moderately fat to fat; 1 immature female, 22.2, fat.
Referring these birds to _notabilis_ is a somewhat arbitrary
procedure. They display some intermediacy of characters and
probably stem from a population, intermediate between
_notabilis_ and _noveboracensis_, occupying much of central
North America (cf. McCabe and Miller, 1933).
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