Comprehensive Description
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Vireo huttoni Cassin
To the 8 earlier records of this vireo as a victim of the brown-headed cowbird (Friedmann, 1963:83) may be added 5 more: 3 from California (San Luis Obispo, Ventura, and Santa Barbara counties) in the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History and the Western Foundation; 1 from near Victoria, British Columbia (Crowell and Nehls, 1973:911); and 1 from Oregon, reported by Anderson (1970:420). In the 1963 summary of available information, 2 records were considered as involving the host race V. huttoni stephensi, 1 from New Mexico, and 1 from Brewster County, Texas. The former is correctly allocated to V. h. stephensi, but the latter can only refer to V. huttoni carolinae, a subspecies not hitherto reported among the victims of the parasite. The record from Victoria, Vancouver Island, refers to the host race V. huttoni insular is, which is the first one reported for that form.
BELL'S VIREO
- bibliographic citation
- Friedmann, Herbert, Kiff, Lloyd F., and Rothstein, Stephen I. 1977. "A further contribution of knowledge of the host relations of the parasitic cowbirds." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-75. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.235
