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Distributional Records of Some Kansas Fishes

Collections from a series of aquatic surveys and other recently curated specimens in the Museum of the High Plains at Fort Hays State University included noteworthy records of the distributions of fishes in Kansas. Range extensions (RE) expand the known range of a species, and in this account, range confirmations (RC) redocument the presence of threatened, endangered, or rarely collected taxa. Voucher specimens are housed in the Fort Hays State University Museum of the High Plains (MHP) and the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History (KU). The proposed 1987 revision of the list of species considered to be endangered, threatened, or in need of conservation in Kansas was used to denote those species in this account.

Allozyme Analysis of the California Gull (Larus californicus)

Jehl (1987) analyzed morphological variation in the California Gull (Larus californicus) and identified two potential races: a small, dark-mantled form mainly from the Great Basin of the United States, and a larger, paler form that breeds in the Great Plains and prairie provinces of Canada. Size differences between these races averaged 5-12% in linear dimensions and 27% in body mass. Zink and Winkler (1983) found no significant genetic differentiation between California Gulls from two colonies in the Great Basin (Mono Lake, California, and Great Salt Lake, Utah) that were morphologically similar but differed in average clutch size. We broadened the analysis to document genetic differentiation between the two proposed races, which, until very recently, retained highly disjunct ranges. We hypothesized, based on the morphological differences (Jehl 1987), that the genetic variation should be more pronounced between the Canadian and Great Basin birds than between the Great Basin colonies. We obtained tissue samples from 23 adult California Gulls from colonies in Alberta (13) and Mono Lake, California (10), collected in the 1985 breeding season. The Alberta sample included 6 birds from Frog Lake (ca. 200 km east of Edmonton, Alberta) and 7 from Beaverhill Lake (ca. 100 km east of Edmonton). Each bird was frozen whole and shipped on dry ice to San Diego, where samples of liver, heart, kidney, and pectoral muscle were removed and immediately frozen at -70?C. Protein electrophoresis followed standard procedures specified by Harris and Hopkinson (1976), with specific modifications outlined by Johnson et al. (1984). Unused tissue was deposited in the Louisiana State University Museum of Zoology Frozen Tissue Collection. From each specimen, sex, standard body-size measurements, and mass were recorded (data given by Jehl 1987). Of the 32 loci surveyed, 25 are monomorphic and fixed for the same allele in the Mono Lake, Beaverhill Lake, and Frog Lake groups. These loci are: mannose phosphate isomerase (Mpi; E.C. 3.2.1.24), glucose-6phosphate dehydrogenase (6-Pgd; 1.1.1.49), glutamate oxaloacetate transaminase (Got-i, 2; 2.6.1.1), adenosine deaminase (Ada; 3.5.4.4), sorbitol dehy-

Birds of a Tropical Deciduous Forest in Extreme Northwestern Peru

From 14 June to 5 July 1979 we studied the avifauna at two localities in Depto. Tumbes, Peru, near the Ecuadorean border. We obtained specimens of six species and 1 5 subspecies new for Peru, and collected specimens and natural history information on such poorly known taxa as Ortalis erythroptera, Synallaxis tithys, Automolus erythrocephalus, and Thamnophilus zarumae. RESUMEN. Entre el 14 de junio y el 5 de julio de 1979 estudiamos la avifauna de dos localidades cercanas a la frontera con Ecuador en el Departamento de Tumbes, Peru. Obtuvimos especimenes de seis especies y 1 5 subespecies nuevas para el Peru y coleccionamos especimenes e information sobre la historia natural de taxa poco conocida como: Ortalis erythroptera, Synallaxis tithys, Automolus erythrocephalus y Thamnophilus zarumae. In South America west of the Andes, the ranges of many humid tropical forest bird species extend from Colombia south to western Ecuador. The climate of this narrow, coastal corridor becomes much drier in southwestern Ecuador, and many species found in the more humid forests to the north are absent. The dry area extends from northwestern Peru in the Deptos. of Piura and Tumbes into west-central Ecuador, with a narrow arm extending into coastal northwestern Ecuador, and is bounded on the east by the Andean Cordillera. Noting the high endemism of birds, as well as other organisms, in the region, Chapman (1926) designated them as the Equatorial Arid Fauna. This region has been studied very little by ornithologists in recent years. Jelski and Stolzmann visited Tumbes in 1876, going on to collect at Lechugal, and in nearby Ecuador at Palmar (= Palmales; Taczanowski 1877). Collecting in the region was not extensive, however, until just after the turn of the century when several expeditions from the American Museum of Natural History worked in the area of Ecuador just north and east of what is now the Depto. Tumbes, Peru. Collectors from the American Museum spent about 200 field-days in the area between 1913 and 1922 (Chapman 1926). M. A. Carriker, Jr., later collected at La Laja, Peru, now near the Ecuadorean border (Bond 1945). From 14 June to 5 July 1979 a field party (the authors, J. W. Eley, and Manuel Sanchez S.) from the Louisiana State University Museum of Zoology (LSUMZ) studied the birds of northeastern Depto. Tumbes near the Ecuadorean border. The aim of our collecting was to clarify the ranges of the forms that reach their southern limit in this region, which is believed to be at or near the southern terminus of Chapman's Colombian-Pacific Fauna, to gather information on the poorly known species of the area, and to provide the Peruvian government with an initial faunal inventory of the Bosque Nacional de Tumbes. Our camp was ca. 2 km east of the Peruvian military post at El Caucho, on Quebrada Faical, about 24 km southeast of Pampa de Hospital (3°49'S, 80°l 7'W; Fig. 1), at about 400 m elevation. During this period, we also visited Campo Verde (3°51'S, 80°H'W), another military outpost ca. 11 km eastsoutheast of El Caucho and at 750 m elevation (30 June; 1, 3, and 4 July). At these localities we collected six bird species not previously recorded in Peru, and recorded 1 5 subspecies new for the country. Because of the extensive earlier collections in nearby Ecuador, most species that we recorded new for Peru had previously been taken within 100 km of our El Caucho camp. Thus, most records are not major range extensions, and in most cases extend the range westward, not

Status and Distribution of Some Northwest Peruvian Birds

-A brief history of ornithological exploration in northwestern Peru (Depts. of Tumbes, Piura, and Lambayeque) is given, with emphasis on recent work by the authors and other personnel of the Louisiana State University Museum of Zoology. New information on the distribution of 48 species is presented. Two species, Common Nighthawk (Chordeiles minor) and Black-and-white Warbler (Mniotilta varia), are reported in Peru for the first

Additions to the Avifauna of Bolivia

-Records of 30 species are newly reported for Bolivia, based on the authors' field work and hitherto unpublished museum specimens. Three additional difficult-to-identify species are reported without specimen or photographic evidence. Some of the records could have been expected while others indicate notable range expansions. In 1976 and 1977, we saw many species of birds in Bolivia not previously reported from that country. Subsequent investigations concerning Bolivian bird records led to the discovery of a number of additional species new to Bolivia represented by previously unpublished specimens in the Louisiana State University Museum of Zoology (LSUMZ). All were collected by Franz Steinbach of Cochabamba, unless stated otherwise. We report below on our records and the Steinbach specimens. Localities frequently referred to in the species accounts are: (1) Tumi Chucua, along the Rio Beni near Riberalta (Dpto. Beni), described in detail by Pearson (1975a, 1975c); (2) Estancia Inglaterra, a cattle ranch along the Rio Yata (Dpto. Beni), 66025'W, 14o43'S; the habitat is a mixture of marsh, grassland, savanna, and gallery forest; (3) Buena Vista, elev. 400 m, Prov. Ichilo (Dpto. Santa Cruz), a locality worked intensively through the years by J. Steinbach and Franz Steinbach; (4) the vicinity of the city of Cochabamba, 2,570 m (Dpto. Cochabamba).

Notes on Siptornis striaticollis (Furnariidae) in Peru

The Spectacled Prickletail (Siptornis striaticollis) is a monotypic furnariid previously recorded only from the subtropical zone of the middle and upper Magdalena Valley in Colombia and the east slope of the Ecuadorian Andes (Mapoto) (Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 36, 1917; Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 55, 1926). In view of the paucity of information on Siptornis, we offer the following observations and report the first occurrence of the species in Peru. In 1978, during ornithological investigations in the Department of Cajamarca in northern Peru, we found Siptornis striaticollis northeast of Huancabamba, ca. 2 km south of Carmen, on the Sapalache-Namballe mule trail (OSOS’ S, 7922’ W). We saw these birds daily from 2 to 17 July foraging with large mixed-species flocks in patches of cloud forest between 1,660 m and 1,880 m elevation. Occasionally when a mixed-species flock assembled in an isolated cluster of trees, we made exact counts of arriving and departing individuals. Siptornis was a regular, low-density participant, with a maximum of three to four individuals per flock. Common flock members included the furnariids Crunioleuco curtata, Anabacerthia striaticollis, and Xenops rutilans, and the antwren Terenuru callinota. The prickletails foraged by creeping along branches, and probing moss clumps, clusters of dead leaves, fruticose lichens, and bark crevices at the level of the forest subcanopy and edge 5-15 m above ground. Several times individuals were seen hanging “paridlike” from petioles of Cecropia leaves, picking unidentified food items from undersides of leaflets. Among species that occur in the same area, Siptornis most closely resembles Xenops rutilans in behavior, size, coloration, and plumage pattern. Both Siptornis and Xenops tapped sporadically on limbs, often bracing the tail against the bark when probing deep crevices. During light rain or dense fog we often located these birds by their faint tapping sounds. On 9 July, after watching a large mixed-species flock pass over the trail, Eley heard a peculiar high-pitched trill coming from the top of a nearby bush. Immediately afterward, a Siptornis hopped into view and perched upright in the bush about 2 m above the trail. Another motionless individual about0.5 m from the first bird and in the interior of the bush answered the trill with a similar call. We heard no other vocalizations of this species. Siptornis striaticollis appeared most closely to fill the ecological niche of piculets of the genus Picumnus. In most subtropical cloud forest throughout eastern Peru and Bolivia at least one species of piculet occurs (Meyer de Schauensee, A guide to the birds of South America, Livingston Publ. Co., Wynnewood, Penn., 1970, and pers. observ.), but piculets are unknown in subtropical forest in the eastern Andes north of the Mararion River, where Siptornis occurs. Perhaps Siptornis and Picumnus are ecologically incompatible. Our three specimens, all males, are deposited at the Louisiana State University Museum of Zoology (LSUMZ). Data from these specimens are listed in Table 1. We thank Richard D. Semba and Manuel Sanchez S. for field assistance. J. Van Remsen, H. Douglas Pratt, John P. O’ Neill, and John Weske read the manuscript. We are most grateful to John S. McIlhenny and Babette M. Odom for their generous support of the field work of the LSUMZ.

Chromosomal Variation in Vampyressa and a Review of Chromosomal Evolution in the Phyllostomidae (Chiroptera)

Gardner, A. L. (National Fish and Wildlife Laboratory, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. 20560) 1977. Chromosomal variation in Vampyressa and a review of chromosomal evolution in the Phyllostomidae (Chiroptera). Syst. Zool., 26:300-318.-Comparisons of the karyotypes of the species of Vampyressa suggest two modes of chromosomal rearrangements in the derivation of the Vampyressa karyotypes: pericentric inversions in V. brocki, V. nymphaea, and V. bidens; and translocations (fusions) in V. melissa and the variants of V. pusilla. This Vampyressa phylogenetic model was used to evaluate the possible derivations of the chromosomal patterns of the 97 species of phyllostomid bats whose karyotypes are known. Sufficient variation to indicate probable evolutionary patterns, in addition to that outlined for Vampyressa, was found at the species level for Micronycteris and Tonatia, and at the generic level for the Glossophaginae, Carolliinae, and Stenoderminae. The analysis supports the points of view presented herein that (1) the common (often considered the ancestral) 2n = 32, FN = 60 configuration was independently acquired by three or more evohitionary lineages and, therefore, must be considered to be derived; (2) the primitive phyllostomid karyotype had a high diploid number (near 40, but possibly as high as 46) and a low fundamental number (near minimum); (3) there was a general trend toward reduction in diploid numbers concomitant with maximization of fundamental numbers; and (4) totally biarmed autosomal configurations, which characterize the majority of the Phyllostomidae, are comparatively more stable than those karyotypes in which half or more of the autosomes are uniarmed. Fourteen karyotypes are reported here for the first time, including that of Vampyressa melissa, which has the lowest diploid number known in the Chiroptera (2n = 14). [Phyllostomidae; evolution; karyotypes.] As presently understood, Vampyressa contains five species (Peterson, 1968). Karyotypically, these five demonstrate sufficient variation to permit not only an evaluation of chromosomal evolution within the genus but insight into the karotypic origins and the directions and kinds of chromosomal change that may have occurred within the family Phyllostomidae. This analysis is based on chromosomal material processed in the field as well as on published karyotype descriptions. Field prepared material was processed by the colchicine-hypotonic citrate technique outlined by Patton (1967). Chromosomal morphology and fundamental number (FN) are as defined by Patton (1967). The specimens whose chromosomes are described herein for the first time are deposited in the collections of the Louisiana State University Museum of Zoology (LSUMZ), the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley (MVZ), and the National Museum of Natural History (USNM) as indicated in Table 1. KARYOTYPES OF Vampyressa Of the Vampyressa karyotypes discussed here, the V. melissa and V. bidens karyotypes and the V. pusilla variant from Peru have not been described previously. Vampyressa pusilla.-Two geographically distinctive chromosomal variants are known (Baker et al., 1973) and a third from Peru is described as follows: 2n =22 (&), 23 (9); FN=22 (Fig. 1, B and C). Autosomes: 1 unpaired large metacentric and 9 pairs of medium-sized to small acrocentrics. The female has an additional pair of autosomes, the smallest in the complement, here considered to be acrocentric for the determination of FN although each bears a very short second arm. The male possesses an unpaired acrocentric (designated XA in Fig. 1C), which for descrip-

A NEW GENUS AND SPECIES OF OWL (AVES: STRIGIDAE) FROM PERU

A new genus and species of tiny owl of the family Strigidae is described from cloud forest in the Departamento de San Mart/n in northern Peru. It appears to be allied to Glaucidium and Micrathene, more closely to the latter than to the former, but generically clearly separable from both of these taxa.--Museum of Zoology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70893. Accepted 4 April 1977. Publication costs subsidized by a friend of the LSUMZ. In 1963 the Louisiana State University Museum of Zoology had the good fortune to acquire a new genus and species of tanager from Peru, Wetmorethraupis sterrhopte- ron (Lowery and O'Neill 1964). The description of this spectacular bird was received by the ornithological world with considerable interest because the consensus of or- nithologists at the time was that the world's birds were so well known that only a handful remained to be discovered. Since 1963 work in Peru alone by personnel of the Louisiana State University Museum of Zoology and by researchers at other institutions has turned up no fewer than 21 new species including four new genera (cf. Lowery and Tallman 1976). Peru is a physiographically and ecologically complex country and many parts of the eastern slopes of the Andes are still unexplored. Because of shifting Pleistocene climatic regimes and the instability and relative recentness of the Andes (Haffer 1974), the patterns of speciation in Peru, as well as in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Bolivia, are extremely complicated. We firmly believe that many pockets of unexplored terrain remain, especially along the eastern base of the Andes, that harbor birds still unknown to science. In this paper we describe another in the ever-lengthening series of remarkable discoveries.

The Lasanen site: An historic burial locality in mackinac county, Michigan. Edited by Charles E. Cleland. xi + 147 pp., figures, tables, appendices, bibliography. Anthropological Series, vol. 1, no. 1. Michigan State University Museum, East Lansing. 1971. $5.00 (paper)

American Journal of Physical AnthropologyVolume 39, Issue 2 p. 320-321 Book Review The Lasanen site: An historic burial locality in mackinac county, Michigan. Edited by Charles E. Cleland. xi + 147 pp., figures, tables, appendices, bibliography. Anthropological Series, vol. 1, no. 1. Michigan State University Museum, East Lansing. 1971. $5.00 (paper) Ronald J. Butler, Ronald J. Butler University of GeorgiaSearch for more papers by this author Ronald J. Butler, Ronald J. Butler University of GeorgiaSearch for more papers by this author First published: September 1973 https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.1330390226AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume39, Issue2September 1973Pages 320-321 RelatedInformation

Utaztekan Prehistory. Edited by Earl H. SwansonJr. , Occasional Papers of the Idaho State University Museum, No. 22, Pocatello, 1968. ii + 149 pp., 4 figs., 5 tables. $4.00.

Utaztekan Prehistory. Edited by Earl H. SwansonJr. , Occasional Papers of the Idaho State University Museum, No. 22, Pocatello, 1968. ii + 149 pp., 4 figs., 5 tables. $4.00.

Birch Creek Tapers No. 3: The Archaeology of the Shoup Rochshelters in East Central Idaho. Earl H. Swanson, Jr. and Paul G. Sneed. Occasional Papers of the Idaho State University Museum, No. 17, Pocatello, 1966. ix + 45 pp., 26 figs. $2.00.

Birch Creek Tapers No. 3: The Archaeology of the Shoup Rochshelters in East Central Idaho. Earl H. Swanson, Jr. and Paul G. Sneed. Occasional Papers of the Idaho State University Museum, No. 17, Pocatello, 1966. ix + 45 pp., 26 figs. $2.00.

Birch Creek Papers No. 2: Natural and Cultural Stratigraphy in the Birch Creek Valley of Eastern Idaho. Earl H. SwansonJr. B. Robert Butler, and Robert Bonnichsen. Occasional Papers of the Idaho State University Museum, No. 14, Pocatello, 1964. 120 pp., 40 figs. $2.00.

Birch Creek Papers No. 2: Natural and Cultural Stratigraphy in the Birch Creek Valley of Eastern Idaho. Earl H. SwansonJr. B. Robert Butler, and Robert Bonnichsen. Occasional Papers of the Idaho State University Museum, No. 14, Pocatello, 1964. 120 pp., 40 figs. $2.00. - Volume 31 Issue 2Part1

An Archaeological Survey of Northern Puget Sound. Alan Lyle Bryan. Occasional Papers of the Idaho State University Museum, No. 11, Pocatello, 1963. ii + 92 pp., appendices, 23 figs. $2.00. - Contributions to the Prehistory of Vancouver Island. Katherine H. Capes. Occasional Papers of the Idaho State University Museum, No. 15, Pocatello, 1964. 95 pp., appendix, 24 figs. $2.00.

An Archaeological Survey of Northern Puget Sound. Alan Lyle Bryan. Occasional Papers of the Idaho State University Museum, No. 11, Pocatello, 1963. ii + 92 pp., appendices, 23 figs. $2.00. - Contributions to the Prehistory of Vancouver Island. Katherine H. Capes. Occasional Papers of the Idaho State University Museum, No. 15, Pocatello, 1964. 95 pp., appendix, 24 figs. $2.00.

A Survey of the Frogs of Honduras

The amphibian faunae of most of the Middle Americas are well known through the works of Smith and Taylor (1948Mexico), Stuart (1963Guatemala), Schmidt (1941British Honduras), Mertens (1952El Salvador), Taylor (1952, 1954, 1955, and 1958Costa Rica) and a series of small papers by Dunn between the years 1931 and 1937 which treated certain aspects of the fauna of Panama. The amphibian faunae of Honduras and Nicaragua are, in comparison, very poorly known. That these countries lack extensive and well differentiated mountainous areas further reduces the possibility of large numbers of endemic species, as is the case in Costa Rica and Mexico. Noble (1918) and Gaige, Hartweg and Stuart (1937) have provided brief reports on the fauna of Nicaragua and Dunn and Emlen (1932) and Schmidt (1933, 1936, and 1939) have paid some attention to the fauna of Honduras. This report is concerned with the anurans of Honduras, based largely upon the Archie Carr collection in the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) as well as lesser collections in the Chicago Natural History Museum (CNHM), Brigham Young University collections (BYU) and the Michigan State University museum collections (MSU). We are grateful to Drs. Richard G. Zweifel, Robert F. Inger, Wilmer W. Tanner and Roland Baker for the loan of material as well as Dr. Doris M. Cochran, United States National Museum (USNM), Dr. Charles F. Walker, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ) and Dr. Ernest E. Williams, Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) for information on certain specimens.

Check List of the Syrphid Flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) of Florida

The family Syrphidae comprises one of the few large families of flies which, viewed from an economic standpoint, are of great benefit to man. The larvae of a considerable number of species are aphidophagous, destroying countless numbers of plant lice and other injurious insects which suck the juices of plants. In many areas syrphid larvae are a principal natural control of aphids on truck crops and citrus. The adults commonly visit flowers for nectar and serve an important role in effecting crosspollenation of plants. Only a few species accidentally introduced into the United States from Europe are known to be harmful, feeding on bulbs of narcissus, amaryllis and onion, and none of these is known to occur in Florida. There are a few authenticated records of accidental parasitism in man, but these are of little significance. Certain species of syrphids have been used by scientists in the laboratory in the study of the physiology of insects, in genetics, and in cytology. Many are of value as scavengers, consuming decaying animal and vegetable matter which otherwise would be a nuisance to man. Adult flies present a remarkable diversity of size, form, and coloration, some resembling bees, wasps, and bumblebees so closely that they are frequently mistaken for the latter. Many species are brightly striped, banded, or otherwise colored with yellow, orange, green and blue, and range from relatively smooth, shiny species to several which are densely hairy. In some cases even the eyes are densely pubescent. The only check list of the Syrphidae of Florida was published in 1913 by C. W. Johnson and included 21 genera and 56 species, several of which were incorrectly determined. There has been relatively little work done in Florida on this interesting family of flies since that of Johnson. I began a study of the Syrphidae in 1945, and have collected a sufficient number of species to warrant publishing this list which includes 103 species, in 32 genera. Records are included from the U. S. National Museum, American Museum of Natural History, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Ohio State University Museum, Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Museum, Illinois

Behavior of Young Grisons in Captivity

The grison, Galictes canaster Nelson, has a known geographic range from Panama to central Meico. It is a rare animal, and there seen to be no extensive accounts concerning observation of livirng specimens. Realizing this, M;. Dyfrig Forbes of Potrero, Veracruz, Mexico, reared a female grison which he later shipped along with a young male (more recently acquired) to the senior author at the Louisiana State University Museum of Zco!ogy, Baton Rouge. We are indebted to Mrs. Dyfrig Forbes for observations on the animals prior to their shipment, and to Miss Marion Forbes for bringing the grisons by way of Pan-American World Airways to Baton Rouge.

A Collection of Kansas Fishes in the State University Museum

A Collection of Kansas Fishes in the State University Museum