University of Kansas Publications
Museum of Natural History
Volume 12, No. 7, pp. 309-345, pls. 5-8.
June 18, 1962
BY
ROBERT K. SELANDER, RICHARD F. JOHNSTON,
B. J. WILKS, AND GERALD G. RAUN
University of Kansas
Lawrence
1962
University of Kansas Publications
Museum of Natural History
Volume 12, No. 7, pp. 309-345, pls. 5-8.
June 18, 1962
BY
ROBERT K. SELANDER, RICHARD F. JOHNSTON,
B. J. WILKS, AND GERALD G. RAUN
University of Kansas
Lawrence
1962
University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History
Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Henry S. Fitch,
Theodore H. Eaton, Jr.
Volume 12, No. 7, pp. 309-345
Published June 18, 1962
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas
PRINTED BY
JEAN M. NEIBARGER, STATE PRINTER
TOPEKA, KANSAS
1962
29-3002
BY
ROBERT K. SELANDER, RICHARD F. JOHNSTON, B. J. WILKS, andGERALD G. RAUN
Lying between the Gulf of Mexico and the Laguna Madre deTamaulipas is a narrow barrier island extending from the delta ofthe Rio Grande south for 140 miles to within 185 miles of Tampico,Tamaulipas (Plate 5). This island, like most of coastal Tamaulipas,has been all but neglected by zoological collectors. Consequently,little is known of the kinds, distribution, and seasonal statusof the vertebrates occurring there. The present paper is a reporton land vertebrates collected and observed on the northern partof the barrier island of Tamaulipas from July 6 to 10, 1961. Ourcollection, which has been deposited in the Museum of NaturalHistory, The University of Kansas, consists of 63 reptiles, 33 mammals,and 97 birds (58 skins, 19 skeletons, and 20 alcoholics).
We are especially indebted to Dr. Charles H. Simpson of Sinton,Texas, who generously placed at our disposal his truck, a four-wheeldrive "Land Rover," without which travel on the island would havebeen difficult. We also acknowledge a loan of field equipmentprovided by Dr. Clarence Cottam, Director of the Welder WildlifeResearch Foundation, Sinton, Texas.
Financial support for the present research was provided by grantsfrom the National Science Foundation to The University of Texas(G 15882) and to The University of Kansas (G 10043).
Permits to collect vertebrates in México were supplied by Ing.Luis Macias Arellano, El Director General, Departamento de Conservaciónde la Fauna Silves, México, D. F.
We are indebted to Dr. Richard H. Manville for arranging a loanof specimens of Geomys personatus tropicalis in the United StatesNational Museum. Dr. Marshall Johnston kindly identified specimensof plants from the barrier island. Several bones of birds andmammals were identified by Dr. Pierce Brodkorb and Dr. E. L.Lundelius. M