magnirostris

Darwin's Large Ground-finch, Geospiza magnirostris magnirostris - possibly extinct (1957?)

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Two endemic species of passeriforms on the island are Mimus magnirostris (nightingale) and Vireo caribaeus, and other subspecies are Icterus leucopteryx lawrencii, Vireo altiloquus canescens, Coereba flaveola oblita and Dendroica petechia flavida.

Cayos Miskitos-San Andrés and Providencia moist forests 2007

Some of these species are found on San Andrés Island including two land birds the San Andrés mockingbird (Mimus magnirostris) and Sam Andrés vireo (Vireo caribaeus) and two reptiles — a lizard (Anolis concolor) and a snake (Coniophanes andresensis).

Cayos Miskitos-San Andrés and Providencia moist forests 2007

Major Bingham, referring to the Burmese Magpie, which has been separated under by the name of _U. magnirostris_, says: --

The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

Now, there is a substantial population of magnirostris on the island, so the response to drought is decline in beak size: they are seeing character displacement to increase differences between two species.

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Also, some hybrids with magnirostris seen - they don't breed back into the population.

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_St. magnirostris_, Licht.] [Footnote 92: _Champsa fissipes, sclerops et nigra_, Wagl.] [Footnote 93: _Echidna ocellata_, Tsch. This is the only species of the viper family belonging to South America, as yet known.] [Footnote 94: _Sphenocephalus melanogenys_, Tsch.; _Lygophis Reginae_,

Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853