JOHNSTON: CAYMAN ISLAND AVIFAUNA


TABLE 8.-BIRDS OF LIMESTONE FORESTS.

 Island: GC GC GC LC CB
 Species Date: December Apr-May August August June-Aug


Columba leucocephala
Zenaida aurita
Zenaida asiatica
Columbina passerina
Leptotila jamaicensis
Amazona leucocephala
Coccyzus minor
Ty!to alba
Colaptes auratus
Centurus supcrciliaris
Tyrannus dominicensis
Tyrannus caudifasciatus
A!Myiarchus stolidus
Elacnia martinica
Dumetella carolinensis
Mimocichla plumbea
Vireo crassirostris
Vireo altiloquus
Vireo magister
Mniotilta varia
Parula americana
Dendroica petechia
Dendroica virens
Dendroica citellina
Setophaga ruticilla
Cocreba flaveola
Spindalis zena
Quiscalus niger
Melopyrrha nigra
 Total Species


U* FC FC* FC*


U U0
 FC*

 U
 C FC*
 C FC*


 FC*
VC VC*
U U

FC U0

C CO
U
U
 U
 U
 C FC*
 U U
VC VC*
U FC*
 U*
 C FC*
 15 21


 FC*
 C U

 U*
 U



 U
 U

VC* VC*

 U
 U0
 U6 FC*


C C* FC*


10 11


* known or suspected breeders


7 8


to the feeding behavioral patterns of these four species. The avifaunal
composition of this "scrub woodland" census is most closely comparable
to that of the relative abundances for towns, house sites, and roadsides in
Table 10.

 BID POPULATIONS AND UPLAND
 SECONDARY PLANT SUCCESSION

 Although detailed studies of secondary plant succession have not been
carried out in the Cayman Islands, apparently some of the major ecologi-
cal formations (plant communities) discussed above should be considered
as climax: sea grape-almond woodland, mangrove forests, and limestone
forest. (Some of the relatively dry buttonwood areas may not be cli-
max.) At any rate, all the evidence from these islands, and chiefly from