Table 2.An Alphabetical List of Species of Mallophaga Removed from Birds Collected on the Yucatán Peninsula in 1962.
SUMMARY
Locality records are given for each of 136 species of birds represented by 493 specimens and sight records are given for eight additional species.
The Yellow-headed Vulture is reported apparently for the first time from the peninsula. The specimens of the Streak-headed Woodhewer and the Louisiana Waterthrush are the second ones of each species taken on the peninsula. The Purple Martin taken on August 14, the Barn Swallow on August 18, and the Louisiana Waterthrush on August 14 represent earliest known autumn dates for these transients.
Evidence for breeding is given for 20 species for the first time and extensions of the known breeding seasons are presented for 41 species.
Fourteen genera, representing about 19 species, of Mallophaga are reported for 20 different species of bird hosts.
At Pisté and Puerto Juarez, species of birds such as the Blue Honeycreeper and the Red-capped Manakin, normally thought of as characteristic of more humid areas, were found breeding in numbers nearcenotes. However, they were not seen to venture far into the surrounding deciduous forest. The availability of suitable habitat brought on by the rainy season and the regular occurrence ofcenoteshelps to explain the presence of such species far outside the Rain Forest zone.
LITERATURE CITED
Transmitted July 11, 1967.