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Zoology Publications 1 Fieldiana: Zoology Pub. No. Volume 1 (Complete in Eighteen Numbers) 5 No. 1. On the Structure and Development of the Vertebral Column of Amia. By O.P. Hay. 1895. 54 pages, 3 color illus. 7 No. 2. On Certain Portions of the Skeleton of Protostega gigas . By O.P. Hay. 1895. 8 pages, 2 illus. 11 No. 3. On Sundry Collections of Mammals Received by the Field Columbian Museum from Different Localities, with Descriptions of Supposed New Species and Sub-Species. By D. G. Elliot. 1896. 18 pages, 10 illus. 12-13 Nos. 4 and 5. On Some Collections of Fishes Made in the Kankakee and Illinois Rivers. By O.P. Hay. 1896. 16 pages. On the Skeleton of Toxochelys latiremus . By O.P. Hay. 1896. 8 pages, 2 illus. 19-20 Nos. 6 and 7. List of Mammals from Somali-Land Obtained by the Museum’s East African Expedition. By D.G. Elliot. 1897. 49 pages. Remarks upon Two Species of Deer of the Genus Cervus from the Philippine Archipelago. By D.G. Elliot. 1897. 2 pages, 24 illus. 22 No. 8. List of Fishes and Reptiles Obtained by Field Columbian Museum East African Expedition to Somali-Land in 1896. By S.E. Meek. 1897. 24 pages, 2 illus. 26 No. 9. List of Collection of Shells from the Gulf of Aden, Obtained by the Museum’s East African Expedition. By W.H. Dall. 1898. 6 pages. 27 No. 10. List of Species of Mammals, Principally Rodents, Obtained by W.W. Price, Dr. S.E. Meek, G.K. Cherrie and E.S. Thompson, in the States of Iowa, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, and California, with Descriptions of New Species. By D.G. Elliot. 1898. 32 pages. 30 No. 11. Preliminary Descriptions of New Rodents from the Olympic Mountains. By D.G. Elliot. 1899. 6 pages. 31 No. 12. Notes on a Collection of Cold-blooded Vertebrates from the Olympic Mountains. By S.E. Meek. 1899. 14 pages. 32 No. 13. Catalogue of Mammals from the Olympic Mountains, Washington, with Descriptions of New Species. By D.G. Elliot. 1899. 36 pages, 35 illus. 37 No. 14. Description of Apparently New Species and Sub-species of Mammals from Oklahoma Territory. By D.G. Elliot. 1899. 6 pages. 1 Zoology Publications 2 Fieldiana: Zoology Pub. No. 38 No. 15. Description of Apparently New Species and Sub-species of Mammals from the Indian Territory. By D.G. Elliot. 1899. 6 pages. 40 No. 16. List of Mammals Obtained by Thaddeus Surber, Collector for the Museum, Chiefly in Oklahoma and Indian Territories. By D.G. Elliot. 1899. 14 pages, 4 illus. 41 No. 17. Notes on a Collection of Fishes and Amphibians from Muskoka and Gull Lakes. By S.E. Meek. 1899. 8 pages. 49 No. 18. Index to Volume I, Numbers 1 to 17. 1900. 14 pages. Volume 2 (Complete in Two Numbers) 45 No. 1. A Synopsis of the Mammals of North America and the Adjacent Seas. By D.G. Elliot. 1901. 472 pages, 143 illus. 57 No. 2. A List of the Land and Sea Mammals of North America, North of Mexico. Supplement to the Synopsis (Vol. II, No. 1). By D.G. Elliot. 1901. 50 pages, 7 illus. Volume 3 (Complete in Sixteen Numbers) 46 No. 1. Description of an Apparently New Species of Mountain Goat. By D.G. Elliot. 1900. 6 pages, 5 illus. 47 No. 2. The Genus Eupomotis . By S.E. Meek. 1900. 8 pages. 54 No. 3. List of Mammals Obtained by Thaddeus Surber, Collector for the Museum, in the Provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec, Canada. By D.G. Elliot. 1901. 18 pages. 58 No. 4. A List of Mammals Obtained by Thaddeus Surber in North and South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. By D.G. Elliot. 1901. 30 pages, 6 illus. 59 No. 5. The Caribou of the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. By D.G. Elliot. 1901. 6 pages, 3 illus. 65 No. 6. A Contribution to the Ichthyology of Mexico. By S.E. Meek. 1902. 70 pages, 29 illus. 67 No. 7. Notes on a Collection of Cold-blooded Vertebrates from Ontario. By S.E. Meek and H.W. Clark. 1902. 12 pages. 71-72 Nos. 8 and 9. A List of a Collection of Mexican Mammals, with Descriptions 2 Zoology Publications 3 Fieldiana: Zoology Pub. No. of Some Apparently New Forms. By D.G. Elliot. 1903. 12 pages. Description of an Apparently New Subspecies of Marten, from the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. By D.G. Elliot. 1903. 4 pages, 1 illus. 74 No. 10. Descriptions of Apparently New Species and Subspecies of Mammals from California, Oregon, the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, and Lower California, Mexico. By D.G. Elliot. 1903. 24 pages, 1 illus. 76 No. 11. A List of Mammals Obtained by Edmund Heller, Collector for the Museum, from the Coast Region of Northern California and Oregon. By D.G. Elliot. 1903. 26 pages. 79 No. 12. List of Mammals Collected by Edmund Heller, in the San Pedro Martir and Hanson Laguna Mountains and the Accompanying Coast Regions of Lower California, with Descriptions of Apparently New Species. By D.G. Elliot. 1903. 36 pages, 1 map. 80 No. 13. Descriptions of Apparently New Species of Mammals of the Genera Heteromys and Ursus from Washington and Mexico. By D.G. Elliot. 1903. 8 pages. 87 No. 14. Descriptions of Twenty-seven Apparently New Species and Subspecies of Mammals. All but six collected by Edmund Heller. By D.G. Elliot. 1903. 25 pages, 2 illus. 90 No. 15. Descriptions of Apparently New Species and Subspecies of Mammals, and a New Generic Name Proposed. By D.G. Elliot. 1904. 10 pages. 91 No. 16. Catalogue of Mammals Collected by E. Heller in Southern California. By D.G. Elliot. 1904. 54 pages, 25 illus. Volume 4 (Complete in Two Parts) Part 1 95A The Land and Sea Mammals of Middle America and the West Indies. By D.G. Elliot. 1904. 509 pages, 181 illus. Part 2 95B The Land and Sea Mammals of Middle America and the West Indies. By D.G. Elliot. 1904. 423 pages, 196 illus. Volume 5 (Complete in One Number) 93 The Freshwater Fishes of Mexico North of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. By S.E. Meek. 1904. 316 pages, 89 illus. 3 Zoology Publications 4 Fieldiana: Zoology Pub. No. Volume 6 (Complete in One Number) 105 A Checklist of Mammals of the North American Continent, the West Indies and the Neighboring Seas. By D.G. Elliot. 1905. 768 pages, 1 illus. Volume 7 (Complete in Thirteen Numbers) 104 No. 1. An Annotated List of a Collection of Reptiles from Southern California and Northern Lower California. By S.E. Meek. 1905. 20 pages, 3 illus. 108 No. 2. A Catalogue of the Fishes of Bermuda, with Notes on a Collection Made in 1895 for the Field Museum. By T.H. Bean. 1906. 72 pages, 14 illus. 116 No. 3. Description of Three New Species of Fishes from Middle America. By S.E. Meek. 1906. 6 pages. 121 No. 4. Synopsis of the Fishes of the Great Lakes of Nicaragua. By S.E. Meek. 1907. 38 pages, 2 illus. 124 No. 5. Notes on Freshwater Fishes from Mexico and Central America. By S.E. Meek. 1907. 28 pages. 127 No. 6. The Zoology of Lakes Amatitlan and Atitlan, Guatemala, with Special Reference to Ichthyology. By S.E. Meek. 1908. 50 pages, 19 illus. 132 No. 7. New Species of Fishes from Tropical America. By S.E. Meek. 1909. 7 pages. 139 No. 8. Description of Two New Pulmonate Mollusks with a List of Other Species from the Solomon Islands, Collected by Dr. G.A. Dorsey. By W.H. Dall. 1910. 14 pages, 4 illus. 142 No. 9. A Synoptic List of the Fishes Known to Occur within Fifty Miles of Chicago. By S.E. Meek and S.F. Hildebrand. 1910. 118 pages, 63 illus. 144 No. 10. Notes on Some Cleridae of Middle and North America, with Description of New Species. By A.B. Wolcott. 1910. 65 pages, 2 illus. 147 No. 11. Batrachians and Reptiles from British East Africa. By S.E. Meek. 1910. 14 pages. 148 No. 12. Notes on Batrachians and Reptiles from the Islands North of Venezuela. By S.E. Meek. 1910. 6 pages. 4 Zoology Publications 5 Fieldiana: Zoology Pub. No. 161 No. 13. Index to Volume VII, Numbers 1 to 12. 1912. Volume 8 (Complete in One Number) 115 A Catalogue of the Collection of Mammals in the Field Columbian Museum. By D.G. Elliot. 1907. 700 pages, 92 illus. Volume 9 (Complete in One Number) 131 The Birds of Illinois and Wisconsin. By C.B. Cory. 1909. 764 pages, numerous illus. Volume 10 (Complete in Sixteen Numbers) 138 No. 1. A Peculiar Bear from Alaska. By W.H. Osgood. 1909. 6 pages, 1 illus. 141 No. 2. Diagnoses of New East African Mammals, Including a New Genus of Muridae. By W. H. Osgood. 1910. 12 pages. 143 No. 3. Further New Mammals from British East Africa. By W.H. Osgood. 1910. 10 pages. 149 No. 4. Mammals from the Coast and Islands of Northern South America. By W.H. Osgood. 1910. 12 pages, 2 illus. 155 No. 5. Mammals from Western Venezuela and Eastern Columbia. By W.H. Osgood. 1912. 33 pages, 2 illus. 158 No. 6. Descriptions of New Fishes from Panama. By S.E. Meek and S.F. Hildebrand. 1912. 2 pages. 163 No. 7. New Species of Fishes from Costa Rica. By S.E. Meek. 1912. 7 pages. 166 No. 8. New Species of Fishes from Panama.
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    THE EXTERNAL PARASITES OF BIRDS: A REVIEW BY ELIZABETH M. BOYD Birds may harbor a great variety and numher of ectoparasites. Among the insects are biting lice (Mallophaga), fleas (Siphonaptera), and such Diptera as hippohoscid flies (Hippohoscidae) and the very transitory mosquitoes (Culicidae) and black flies (Simuliidae), which are rarely if every caught on animals since they fly off as soon as they have completed their blood-meal. One may also find, in birds ’ nests, bugs of the hemipterous family Cimicidae, and parasitic dipterous larvae that attack nestlings. Arachnida infesting birds comprise the hard ticks (Ixodidae), soft ticks (Argasidae), and certain mites. Most ectoparasites are blood-suckers; only the Ischnocera lice and some species of mites subsist on skin components. The distribution of ectoparasites on the host varies with the parasite concerned. Some show no habitat preference while others tend to confine themselves to, or even are restricted to, definite areas on the body. A list of 198 external parasites for 2.55 species and/or subspecies of birds east of the Mississippi has been compiled by Peters (1936) from files of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine between 1928 and 1935. Fleas and dipterous larvae were omitted from this list. According to Peters, it is possible to collect three species of lice, one or two hippoboscids, and several types of mites on a single bird. He records as many as 15 species of ectoparasites each from the Bob-white (Co&us uirginianus), Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia), and Robin (Turdus migratorius). The lice and plumicolous mites, however, are typically the most abundant forms present on avian hosts.
  • Diptera) Diversity in a Patch of Costa Rican Cloud Forest: Why Inventory Is a Vital Science

    Diptera) Diversity in a Patch of Costa Rican Cloud Forest: Why Inventory Is a Vital Science

    Zootaxa 4402 (1): 053–090 ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/ Article ZOOTAXA Copyright © 2018 Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4402.1.3 http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C2FAF702-664B-4E21-B4AE-404F85210A12 Remarkable fly (Diptera) diversity in a patch of Costa Rican cloud forest: Why inventory is a vital science ART BORKENT1, BRIAN V. BROWN2, PETER H. ADLER3, DALTON DE SOUZA AMORIM4, KEVIN BARBER5, DANIEL BICKEL6, STEPHANIE BOUCHER7, SCOTT E. BROOKS8, JOHN BURGER9, Z.L. BURINGTON10, RENATO S. CAPELLARI11, DANIEL N.R. COSTA12, JEFFREY M. CUMMING8, GREG CURLER13, CARL W. DICK14, J.H. EPLER15, ERIC FISHER16, STEPHEN D. GAIMARI17, JON GELHAUS18, DAVID A. GRIMALDI19, JOHN HASH20, MARTIN HAUSER17, HEIKKI HIPPA21, SERGIO IBÁÑEZ- BERNAL22, MATHIAS JASCHHOF23, ELENA P. KAMENEVA24, PETER H. KERR17, VALERY KORNEYEV24, CHESLAVO A. KORYTKOWSKI†, GIAR-ANN KUNG2, GUNNAR MIKALSEN KVIFTE25, OWEN LONSDALE26, STEPHEN A. MARSHALL27, WAYNE N. MATHIS28, VERNER MICHELSEN29, STEFAN NAGLIS30, ALLEN L. NORRBOM31, STEVEN PAIERO27, THOMAS PAPE32, ALESSANDRE PEREIRA- COLAVITE33, MARC POLLET34, SABRINA ROCHEFORT7, ALESSANDRA RUNG17, JUSTIN B. RUNYON35, JADE SAVAGE36, VERA C. SILVA37, BRADLEY J. SINCLAIR38, JEFFREY H. SKEVINGTON8, JOHN O. STIREMAN III10, JOHN SWANN39, PEKKA VILKAMAA40, TERRY WHEELER††, TERRY WHITWORTH41, MARIA WONG2, D. MONTY WOOD8, NORMAN WOODLEY42, TIFFANY YAU27, THOMAS J. ZAVORTINK43 & MANUEL A. ZUMBADO44 †—deceased. Formerly with the Universidad de Panama ††—deceased. Formerly at McGill University, Canada 1. Research Associate, Royal British Columbia Museum and the American Museum of Natural History, 691-8th Ave. SE, Salmon Arm, BC, V1E 2C2, Canada. Email: [email protected] 2.