01636nas a2200169   4500008004100000245008900041210006900130300001200199490000700211520110300218653002501321100002101346700002401367700001601391700001901407856004001426       1994                        eng d00aNew Information on Late Pleistocene Birds from San Josecito Cave, Nuevo Leon, Mexico0 aNew Information on Late Pleistocene Birds from San Josecito Cave  a577-5890 v963 a<div>
<div class="abstract1">We report 90 bird bones representing 18 species from recent excavations at San Josecito Cave, Nuevo León, Mexico. The new material increases the avifauna of this rich late Pleistocene locality from 52 to 62 species. Eight of the 10 newly recorded taxa are extant; each is either of temperate rather than tropical affinities (such as the American Woodcock Scolopax minor and Pinyon Jay Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus) or is very wide-spread in its modern distribution. The two extinct taxa are a stork (Ciconia sp. or Mycteria sp.) and Geococcyx californianus conklingi, a large temporal subspecies of the Greater Road-runner. In this region of the Sierra Madre Oriental (about lat. 24°N, long. 100°W, elev. 2,000-2,600 m), the late Pleistocene avifauna was a mixture of species that today prefer coniferous or pine-oak forests/woodlands, grasslands/savannas, and wetlands. As with various late Pleistocene plant and mammal communities of the United States and México, no clear modern analog exists for the late Pleistocene avifauna of San Josecito Cave.</div>
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10abiology paleontology1 aSteadman, D., W.1 aArroyo-Cabrales, J.1 aJohnson, E.1 aGuzman, A., F.  uhttp://www.jstor.org/stable/1369460