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NOTES ON NORTHERN MIGRANTS OBSERVED INLAND IN BRITISH GUIANA
Author(s) -
Davis. T. A. W.
Publication year - 1954
Publication title -
ibis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.933
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1474-919X
pISSN - 0019-1019
DOI - 10.1111/j.1474-919x.1954.tb02335.x
Subject(s) - geography , range (aeronautics) , tropics , scarcity , ethnology , archaeology , ecology , history , biology , materials science , economics , composite material , microeconomics
Summary. 1. The scarcity of northern migrants in British Guiana and the South American tropics generally is commented on. 2. 40 species of migrants, exclusing rare vagrants, from North America are known to occur in British Guiana; 24 of these have been recorded from the Bartica district. In each case nearly half are waders. 3. The number of species found in the Bartica district of British Guiana is compared with the number recorded in a recent intensive study of an inland area near the Caribbean coast of northeastern Venezuela, where 12 of the 16 northern migrants noted were waders. 4. A list of migrants from North America observed at the tropical research station of the New York Zoological Society at Kartabo (Bartica district) is criticized. 5. Notes from the writer's own observations on inland occurrences in British Guiana of 19 migrants and one rare vagrant are given. 6. Notes on two other species, the Swallow‐tailed Kite Elanoides forficatus (a resident race occurs), and the Black Swift Nephoecetes niger , whose winter range is unknown, are included.