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Cotinga 14 Neotropical Notebook Neotropical Notebook contains for Cuba. In the afternoon of 7 white on its wingtips, and was three sections. The first consists of April 1999, SMW saw a Franklin’s identified according to the short papers documenting records. Gull moulting into second following features: wings more Photos and descriptions are alternate plumage on the rocky rounded than Laughing Gull, published where appropriate. The shore with several Laughing Gulls which are longer and more second section summarises Larus atricilla at Playa El Chivo, pointed; general coloration paler, records published elsewhere, near the entrance to the Havana not as dark-mantled as Laughing following the format established Tunnel, in eastern Havana City. It Gull. Its dorsal surface was seen in previous issues of Cotinga, and was watched, at 200–260 m, with several times as it flew quite high the third lists unpublished and binoculars for c. 90 minutes and over the water, and the wing-tip undocumented records. Please was seen again there for pattern was very distinct, indicate, with submissions, in approximately the same period appearing paler than Laughing which section you wish your next day. A week later, on 14 April, Gull due to the obvious black and records to appear. another was observed at Playa white bands, the broad outer edge Larga, a tourist resort on the Bay was white with a black subtermi SHORT NOTES of Pigs (Matanzas Province), 162 nal band, bordered on the inner km south-east of Havana city. At side by a white band, which was 10h30, AK, PB and 15 other also very conspicuous. Franklin’s F ra n k lin ’s G u ll Larus pipixcan birdwatchers located a Franklin’s Gull breeds in central North and Mississippi Kite Ictin ia Gull among a tight flock of 10 America and winters primarily mississippiensis new to Cuba Laughing Gulls flying south-west, along the Pacific coast of South Franklin’s Gull Larus pipixcan and in direct comparison could America, south to southern Chile has previously been reported in observe the distinctly smaller (also Galápagos). It is less several West Indian islands: body and wings than Laughing common at this season north to Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, St. Gull. It was apparently an adult Mexico and rare on high Andean Barthelemy and Guadeloupe3. in definitive alternate plumage, lakes in Peru and Bolivia, and Here, we report the first records with a complete black hood and occasionally reaches north to Field sketches by Peter Burke 101 Cotinga 14 Neotropical Notebook central coastal California and The nest of the Snowy Cotinga es el primer registro de Florida1. Carpodectes nitidus in C o s ta parasitismo de M. bonariensis en Our record of Mississippi Kite R ica el genero Cistothorus3. Ictinia mississippiensis represents The breeding biology of the Snowy El Cucarachero de Pantano es the first for Cuba and the West Cotinga Carpodectes nitidus is un ave endémica de las elevaciones Indies. The only kite that almost unknown1. In April 1999, altas (2400–4000 msnm) de los regularly migrates through Cuba near the village of Canalete, on departamentos de Cundinamarca y is Swallow-tailed Kite Elanoides the Atlantic slope of the Cordillera Boyacá (Colombia)1,2 y amenazada forficatus. This observation was de Guanacaste, in north-west de extinción por la acelerada made 17 April 1999, when three Costa Rica near the border with destrucción de su hábitat, individuals were seen by PB and Nicaragua, we found a nest of the conformado por la vegetación 15 participants of a commercial species. It was situated in a emergente de humedales y por birding tour at Boca de Jaruco, 1 leafless tree (known locally as bosques adyacentes de aliso Alnus km west of Rio Jaruco, Havana cabillo or cabejo) in a largely acuminata1. Aunque la presencia province. All three were in first deforested area near a dirt road. de M. bonariensis en los alternate plumage with banded The adjacent tree, apparently of departamentos mencionados no es tails (not all-dark as in adults); the same species, was in a full reciente (J. Hernández com. pers.), pale whitish heads; dull grey leaf, despite it being the dry es posible que sus hábitos underparts; pale, whitish panel on season. The nest was 10–12 m reproductivos sean bastante secondaries; and long, square- above ground and was placed, negativos sobre las poblaciones del tipped tail. They were observed unobtrusively, in a three-pronged Cucarachero de Pantano, como ya soaring and foraging within the tree fork. It appeared unusually se ha documentado para varias smoke from a brush fire beside the small for the size of the bird, and especies en el caribe6. Dado el highway for 30 minutes (see would have gone unnoticed but for tiempo de la observación se sketches). Mississippi Kite breeds the arrival of the female, which descarta la posibilidad de que el in the south-east USA and largely was feeding at least one nestling pichón estuviera siendo winters in central South America, (seen peering from the nest). Air alimentado simultáneamente por where it is principally recorded in temperatures at midday, during varios hospederos, como ha sido Paraguay and northern Argentina; the dry season, are 37–38° , reportado para Molothrus ater1. scattered sight reports exist in making the bird’s choice of an Dado el delicado estado de winter north to south Texas and unshaded location in which to nest conservación del Cucarachero de Florida, but the vast majority lack appear rather unusual. Pantano, es necesario considerar documentation1. al Chamón Maicero como una R e fe re n c e probable amenaza para sus R eferen ces 1. Stiles, F. G. & Skutch, A. F. poblaciones como también para las 1. American Ornithologists’ (1989) A guide to the birds of de otras especies endémicas que Union (AOU) (1998) Check Costa Rica. Ithaca, NY: habitan los humedales como la list of North American birds. Cornell University Press. monjita Agelaius icterocephalus Seventh edition. Lawrence, bogotensis5 y que este factor se Kansas: American Ornitholo Gerald Klebauskas and Amalia debe tener en cuenta en el gists’ Union. Pacheco momento al emprender proyectos 2. Raffaele, H., Wiley, J., Garrido, c/o R.R.2, Box 2821, Factoryville, de investigativos y/o O., Keith, A. & Raffaele, J. PA 18419, USA. conservacionistas en la región. (1998) Birds of the West Indies. London, UK: A. & C. Agradecimientos Black. Prim er registro de parasitismo Al grupo de Ornitología de la reproductivo en el Universidad Nacional junto a Peter Burke Cucarachero de Pantano quienes se visitó el humedal La 13 McKenzie Avenue, London, ON, Cistothorus apolinari p o r el Conejera. A F. Gary Stiles y Jorge N6C 1V1, Canada. Chamón Maicero M o lo th ru s Botero por la revisión del bonariensis manuscrito. Arturo Kirkconnell A principios de marzo de 1999 Museo Nacional de Historia durante 30 minutos una pareja del Referencias Natural, Obispo 61, Plaza de Cucarachero de Pantano 1. Collar, N. J, Gonzaga, L. P., Armas, Habana Vieja, Cuba. Cistothorus apolinari alimentando Krabbe N., Madroño Nieto A., un pichón del Chamón Maicero Naranjo, L. G., Parker, T. A. & Steve M. Whitehouse Molothrus bonariensis en la Wege D. C. (1992) Threatened 6 Skipton Crescent, Berkeley vegetación emergente del humedal birds of the Americas: the Pendlesham, Worcester WR4 0LG, La Conejera, Santafé de Bogotá, ICBP/ IUCN Red Data Book. UK. Colombia a 2600 msnm. Este Cambridge, UK: Interna registro coincide con la época tional Council for Bird reproductiva de ambas especies1 y Preservation. 102 C otin ga 14 Neotropical Notebook Figures 1–2. Adult Grey-headed Gull Larus cirrocephalus, San Cristobal, Galápagos, 9 August 1978 (H. Lee Jones) 2. Hilty, S. L. & Brown, W. L. among a migrating flock of c.50 feet, and bill deep red; eye yellow; (1986) A guide to the birds of Plumbeous Ictinia plumbea and dusky underwing. Colombia. Princeton: 80 Swallow-tailed Kites Elanoides As the species was not included Princeton University Press. forficatus, 20 km north of El Vigía, in Harris3, I assumed that this 3. Friedmann, H. & Kiff, L. F. south-west Mérida. The light was could represent the first (1985) The parasitic cowbirds from behind us, and the birds Galápagos record, but that it and their hosts. Proc. West. moved slowly over a small hill would turn up in the future, Found. Vertebr. Zool. 4. close to the road we were standing perhaps regularly, as more birders 4. Klein, N. K. & Rosenberg, K. V. on. The Mississippi Kite had a visited this archipelago. When (1986) Feeding of the Brown solid black tail and lacked rufous Castro & Phillips2 was published headed Cowbird (Molothrus wing patches, as did the adjacent in 1996, I was surprised to learn ater) fledglings by more than Plumbeous Kites. I have seen that L. cirrocephalus was still one ‘host’ species. Auk 103: many 100s of these species, with unrecorded in the islands. The 213–214. my field experience of species is ‘recorded very 5. Naranjo, L. G. (1995) Patrones mississippiensis commencing in frequently’ in coastal Ecuador1 de reproducción en dos 1948 and plumbea in 1960. and is ‘fairly common’ in coastal poblaciones aisladas de Peru1. It also is found discontinu- Agelaius icterocephalus (Aves: Richard Ryan ously in eastern South America, Icteridae). Caldasia 86: 89– Neotropic Bird Tours, 38 Brookside along much of the Atlantic coast, 100. Avenue, Livingston, NJ 07039- and in the interior along the 6. Wiley, J. W. (1985) Shiny 4030, USA. Amazon River and its tributaries. Cowbird parasitism in two avian communities in Puerto R eferen ces Rico. Condor 87: 165–176. First record in the Galápagos 1. Butler, Y. (1979) The birds of Islands of Grey-headed Gull Ecuador and the Galápagos J.