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| Systematics and behavior of South American flickers (Aves, Colaptes). Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 149, article 1 |
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| Title: | Systematics and behavior of South American flickers (Aves, Colaptes). Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 149, article 1 |
| Other Titles: | South American flickers |
| Authors: | Short, Lester L. |
| Issue Date: | 1972 |
| Publisher: | New York : [American Museum of Natural History] |
| Series/Report no.: | Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History ; v. 149, article 1 |
| Abstract: | "The genus Colaptes is comprised of eight species, formerly arranged in the genera Colaptes, Nesoceleus, and Chrysoptilus. More or less distinct forms hybridize in secondary contacts within four of the eight species. The six South American species constitute two subgroups; the forest, or green, flickers, which are more arboreal and more closely resemble the ancestor of Colaptes, and the ground flickers, which are to a high degree terrestrially adapted, live in open country, and represent the most specialized species of the genus. The North American Colaptes auratus resembles the green flicker group more than it does the ground flickers; it is probably independently derived from an ancestor of the former group. Two well-marked races comprise the somewhat xeric-adapted C. atricollis, which is morphologically and behaviorally unspecialized. Several races are included in C. punctigula, which is partly ground-foraging and the only truly tropical flicker. Colaptes melanochloros forms a super... |
| Description: | 109 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 108-109). |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2246/1198 |
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