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
Champotón.--Lat. 19° 21´ N, long. 90° 43´ W, sea level to five
meters. A fishing village on the Gulf of Mexico. Collections were
made principally at our camp five kilometers south of the town. Low
deciduous forest, second growth, and _milpas_.
Escárcega.--Lat. 18° 37´ N, long. 90° 44´ W, elevation 65 meters. A
village in southwestern Campeche. Field work was carried out
principally in the vicinity of an agricultural experiment station
seven and a half kilometers west of the town. Second growth and
moderately tall rainforest.
Isla del Carmen.--Lat. 18° 43´ N, long. 91° 41´ W, sea level to two
meters. An island in the mouth of Laguna de Términos. Collections
were made at our camp on the northeastern end of the island, about
one kilometer southwest of Puerto Real. Coconut plantations and
mangrove swamp.
Quintana Roo
Felipe Carillo Puerto.--Lat. 19° 35´ N, long. 88° 02´ W, elevation
30 meters. A village in east-central Quintana Roo. Field work was
centered at Rancho San Miguel, about four kilometers north-northeast
of the village. Mostly second growth rainforest with scattered
large patches of tall trees (to 30 meters). Several large _milpas_
were present on the ranch some of which had been recently cleared.
Our camp was at a large aguada bordered on one side by an extensive
marsh with tall dense grass.
Isla Cozumel.--Lat. 20° 27´ N, long. 86° 26´ W, sea level to 10
meters. A large island, 15 kilometers east of the mainland.
Collections were made on the northwestern part of the island from
one to five kilometers north-northeast of the village of San Miguel
in low, dense deciduous forest.
Isla Mujeres.--Lat. 21° 12´ N, long. 86° 43´ W, sea level to 30
meters. A small, narrow island about eight kilometers from the
coast at the northeastern end of the peninsula. Field work was done
on the beach at the northern end of the island, in low deciduous
forest in the middle of the island, and in low deciduous forest and
cactus (_Opuntia_) association on a high rocky bluff on the
southern end of the island.
[Illustration: FIG. 1. A map of the Yucatán Peninsula of
Mexico showing localities referred to in the text.]
Pueblo Nuevo X-can.--Lat. 21° 52´ N, long. 87° 26´ W, elevation 10
meters. A village five kilometers east of X-can, Yucatán, in
rainforest with dense underbrush. Specimens were obtained from the
immediate vicinity of the village.
Puerto Juárez.--Lat. 21° 10´ N, long. 86° 49´ W, sea level. A small
port on the Caribbean Coast with alternating sand beach and
limestone shore. Mangrove swamps extend a short distance inland at
various points. Specimens were collected in rainforestlike
vegetation at a small _cenote_, in low deciduous forest, and at our
camp along a large, cleared airstrip four kilometers west-southwest
of the village.
Yucatán
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