Comprehensive Description
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Phleocryptes melanops (Vieillot)
The Delaware Museum of Natural History has a set of 2 eggs of this rushbird with I of the shiny cowbird, taken at Buena Esperanza, San Luis Province, Argentina, 14 December 1912, by J. Goodall. This is the first record known to us of this species as a victim of the parasite (nominate races of both P. melanops and M. bonariensis are involved).
FIREWOOD-GATHERER
- 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
