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Notes on the Black Chachalaca (Penelopina nigra)

Author(s) -

Robert Andrle

Publication year - 1967

Publication title -

ornithology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.077

H-Index - 94

eISSN - 1938-4254

pISSN - 0004-8038

DOI - 10.2307/4083184

Subject(s) - deforestation (computer science) , range (aeronautics) , geography , elevation (ballistics) , mountain range (options) , forestry , physical geography , materials science , geometry , mathematics , computer science , financial economics , economics , composite material , programming language

THROUGH its range from eastern Oaxaca to Nicaragua the Black Chachalaca still is a common bird in many places despite depletion or, locally, its complete elimination by hunting and deforestation. Altitudinally it has a broad range, having been recorded from as low as 450 meters elevation in Oaxaca (D. F. Hoffmeister, Auk, 68: 508, 1951) to as high as 2,925 meters in Guatemala (D. H. Baepler, Condor, 64: 143, 1962), where it probably ascends above this level on a few of the loftiest mountains. This chachalaca's normal lower altitudinal limit in Mexico

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