Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula, MexicoKlaas, Erwin E.
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Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
Klaas, Erwin E.
Birds -- Yucatan Peninsula
_Progne subis subis_ (Linnaeus): Purple Martin.--A large migrant flock
of several thousand individuals of this species was present for several
days in August at Rancho San Miguel.
Specimens (3): [Female], 40723, ovary inactive, 48.6 gm. (August
14), [Female], 40724, 51.8 gm. (August 17), and [Female], 40725,
imm. skull, 52.1 gm. (August 17), 4 km. NNE Felipe Carrillo Puerto.
_Petrochelidon fulva citata_ Van Tyne: Cave Swallow.--Throughout our
stay at Pisté, large numbers of Cave Swallows were seen flying in and
out of the small opening of a well-like _cenote_ in the center of the
village. Specimens were easily collected in a mist net placed across
the opening. No young Cave Swallows were taken and gonads of adults
were in various stages of reproductive activity. A few individuals
taken were beginning to molt. Probably the swallows were nesting in the
_cenote_ although the nests were inaccessible to view. Previous
breeding records are for April (Paynter, 1955a:209).
Twenty-two specimens were collected, of which the following were
taken at Pisté, July 21-25: [Male], 40693, testis 6 × 3 mm., 18.4
gm.; [Male], 40696, 16.4 gm.; [Female], 40697, 18.2 gm.; [Male],
40695, 15.0 gm.; [Female], 40690, ovary inactive, 18.4 gm.,
molting--2nd primaries ensheathed; [Male], 40692, testis 5 × 3 mm.,
17.9 gm.; [Female], 40698, 18.3 gm.; [Female], 40702, ovary 7 × 3
mm., 18.9 gm.; [Female], 40703, ovary 6 × 3 mm., 17.5 gm.; [Male],
40713, testis 3 mm., 18.4 gm.; [Female], 40704, 16.5 gm.; [Male],
40705, 20.3 gm.; [Male], 40699, testis 2 mm., 18.6 gm.,
molting--2nd primaries ensheathed; [Female], 40700, ovary 5 × 3
mm., 18.5 gm., molting--1st primaries ensheathed; [Female], 40701,
ovary 5 × 3 mm., 16.5 gm., molting--1st primaries ensheathed;
[Male], 40707, testis 7 × 5 mm., 19.9; [Male], 40708, testis 4 × 3
mm., 18.4 gm.; [Female], 40709, ovary 4 × 3 mm., 18.0 gm.; sex?
40711, 18.3 gm., molting--1st and 2nd primaries ensheathed.
Additional specimens are: [Female], 40718, 16.5 gm., molting--3rd
primaries ensheathed (August 16), and [Female], 40719, 18.5 gm.,
molting 1st primaries ensheathed (August 16), 4 km. NNE Felipe
Carrillo Puerto; [Male], 40689, testis 1 mm., 16.2 gm.,
molting--2nd primaries ensheathed (August 10), 13 km. WSW Sisal.
Mallophaga: _Philopterus excisus_, July 21; _Myrsidea_ sp. July 21
and 25.
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