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swamp, include the following: marsh 

 hawk, duck hawk, white-necked raven, 

 rough-winged swallow, and bank 

 swallow. 



14. WESTERN SMALL TREE AND SUC- 

 CULENT DESERT BIOTA (ARIZONA SUC- 

 CULENT DESERT, SHREVE) (WESTERN 



DESERT SCRUB, IN PART, CLEMENTS) 



"A mixed stand of microphyllous 

 shrubs or small trees, either evergreen 

 or deciduous, and of succulent forms, 

 chiefly the stem succulent cacti. The 

 leading shrubs are creosote bush and 

 cat-claw (Acacia) ; the commonest small 

 trees are palo verde (Parkinsonia) and 

 palo fierro (Olneya). The succulents 

 comprise large columnar forms (Car- 

 negiea), branching aborescent forms 

 (Opuntia), and many smaller types." 



Mammals include the black-tailed 

 deer (Ododoileus), black-tailed jack- 

 rabbit (Lepus californicus group), cot- 

 tontail rabbit (Sylvilagus audubonii 

 group), coyotes (Cam's spp.), badger 

 (Taxidea), and many species of rodents. 



Breeding birds include the following: 

 killdeer, snowy plover, masked bob- 

 white, GambeFs quail, western mourn- 

 ing dove, white-winged dove, Mexican 

 ground dove, Inca dove, turkey vulture, 

 Harris' hawk, western red-tail, zone- 

 tailed hawk, Swainson's hawk, Mexican 

 black hawk, Mexican goshawk, prairie 

 falcon, Aplomado falcon, desert sparrow 

 hawk, Audubon's caracara, Arizona 

 spotted owl, Mexican screech owl, spot- 

 ted screech owl, western horned owl, 

 burrowing owl, road-runner, California 

 cuckoo, Chihuahua woodpecker, cactus 

 woodpecker, Gila woodpecker, gilded 

 flicker, Stephens' poor-will, Texas night- 

 hawk, Costa hummingbird, broad-billed 

 hummingbird, Arizona crested fly- 

 catcher, ash-throated flycatcher, oliva- 

 ceous flycatcher, buff-breasted fly- 

 catcher, vermilion flycatcher, beard- 

 less flycatcher, scorched horned lark, 

 bronzed cowbird, Sonora red-wing, Rio 

 Grande meadowlark, Scott's oriole, 

 orchard oriole, house finch, Arkansas 

 goldfinch, western lark sparrow, desert 



sparrow, botteri sparrow, rufous-winged 

 sparrow, Scott's sparrow, desert song 

 sparrow, Arizona cardinal, Arizona 

 pyrrhuloxia, western blue grosbeak, 

 beautiful bunting, Mexican cliff swallow, 

 barn swallow, phainopepla, white- 

 rumped shrike, Stephens' vireo, least 

 vireo, Lucy's warbler, Sonora yellow war- 

 bler, western yellow-throat, western 

 mockingbird, Palmer's thrasher, Ben- 

 dire's thrasher, Leconte's thrasher, 

 crissal thrasher, cactus wren, Baird's 

 wren, verdin, and plumbeous gnat-- 

 catcher. 



Breeding birds preferring a moist 

 habitat, generally near a stream or 

 swamp, include the following: marsh 

 hawk, duck hawk, white-necked raven, 

 rough-winged swallow, and bank 

 swallow. 



15. MESQUITE SEMI-DESERT BIOTA 



(TEXAS SEMI-DESERT, SHREVE) 



"An open or closed stand of small trees 

 and shrubs, chiefly deciduous, with 

 local areas of grassland and a represen- 

 tation of succulents. The dominant 

 tree is mesquite (Prosopis glandulosd) ; 

 the principal shrub, huisache (Acacia 

 farnesiana)." 



Mammals include white-tailed deer 

 (Odocoileus texanus}, wolf (Cam's rufus~), 

 opossum (Didelphis marsupialis texen- 

 szs), peccary (Tayassu), and armadillo 

 (Dasypus novemcinctus texanus}. 



Breeding birds include the following: 

 killdeer, Mexican jacana, chestnut- 

 bellied scaled quail, Attwater's prairie 

 chicken, Rio Grande turkey, chachalaca, 

 red-billed pigeon, western mourning 

 dove, white-winged dove, Mexican 

 ground dove, Inca dove, white-fronted 

 dove, black vulture, turkey vulture, 

 Harris' hawk, western red-tail, zone- 

 tailed hawk, Swainson's hawk, Sennet's 

 white-tailed hawk, Mexican black hawk, 

 Mexican goshawk, prairie falcon, Aplo- 

 mado falcon, desert sparrow hawk, 

 Audubon's caracara, spotted owl, Texas 

 screech owl, burrowing owl, groove- 

 billed ani, road-runner, California 

 cuckoo, coppery-tailed trogon, Texas 



