Osteological characters for the identification of Caribbean columbids
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Columbid remains are commonly recovered from Caribbean archaeological and paleontological sites. Identifying specimens to species level is therefore likely to yield a wealth of information concerning species diversity and changes in their distribution over time. Here we examine the metrical data and 42 osteological characters of eight skeletal elements of 80 specimens belonging to 12 species from five genera that represent most of the indigenous taxa of the West Indies. Our new data provide a reliable means for identifying these birds in the Caribbean fossil and subfossil record.
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Columbidae, pigeons, doves, osteology, Antilles
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Worthy, T. H. 2001. A giant flightless pigeon gen. et sp. nov. and a new species of Ducula (Aves: Columbidae), from Quaternary deposits in Fiji. Journal of the Royal Society of New
Zealand, 31 (4): 763–794.
Baptista, L. F., P. W. Trail, & H. M. Horblit. 1997. Family Columbidae (pigeons and doves), (pp. 60–243) In: del Hoyo, J., A. Elliott & J. Sargatal (Eds.). Handbook of the birds of the world. Vol. 4: Sandgrouse to cuckoos. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
Baumel, J. J., & L. M. Witmer. 1993. Osteologia (pp. 45–132). In: Baumel, J. J., A. S. King, J. E. Breazile, H. E. Evans & J. C. Vanden Berge (Eds.). Handbook of Avian Anatomy: Nomina Anatomica Avium, Publications of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, NO. 23, Cambridge.
Brodkorb, P. 1959. Pleistocene birds from New Providence Island, Bahamas. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences, 4: 349–371.
Driesch von den, A. 1976. A guide to the measurements of animal bones from archaeological sites. Peabody Museum Bulletin, Vol. 1. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, 138 pp.
Fick, O. K. W. 1974. Vergleichend morphologische Untersuchungen an Einzelknochen europäischer Taubenarten. Inaugural-Dissertation, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, 93 pp.
Gibbs, D., E. Barnes, & J. Cox. 2001. Pigeons and doves: a guide to the pigeons and doves of the world, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 616 pp.
Goldberg, P. M. 1999. Statistical comparisons of the osteology of Southwestern Columbidae. Journal of archaeological science, 26 (12): 1459–1471.
Grouard, S. 2001. Subsistance, systèmes techniques et gestion territoriale en milieu insulaire antillais précolombien: exploitation des vertébrés et des crustacés aux époques Saladoïdes et Troumassoïdes de Guadeloupe (400 av. JC à 1500 ap. JC). Dissertation presented for the Graduate School, University of Paris.
Grouard, S. 2013. Chasses, pêches et captures de faunes vertébrées et crustacées des occupations côtières récentes du Sud de la Martinique (Saladoïde récent, Vè siècle Ap. J.-C. – Suazoïde récent, XVe s. ap. J.-C.) (pp. 115–161). In: Bérard B. (Ed.). Martinique, terre amérindienne. Une approche pluridisciplinaire. Sidestone Press, Leiden.
Jiménez-Vázquez, O. 2001. Registros ornitológicos en residuarios de dieta de los aborígenes precerámicos cubanos. El Pitirre, 14: 120–126.
Jiménez-Vázquez, O., & R. Arrazcaeta. 2008. Las aves en la arqueología histórica de La Habana Vieja. Boletín del Gabinete de Arqueología, 7: 17–29.
Jiménez-Vázquez, O., & R. Arrazcaeta. 2015. Las aves y su relación con las culturas precolombinas de Cuba. Boletín del Gabinete de Arqueología, 11: 141–157.
Livezey, B. C., & R. L. Zusi. 2006. Phylogeny of Neornithes. Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 37: 1–544.
Newsom, L. A., & E. S. Wing. 2004. On land and sea: Native American uses of biological resources in the West Indies. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, 344 pp.
Olson, S. L. 2011. The fossil record and history of doves on Bermuda (Aves: Columbidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 124: 1–6.
Olson, S. L., & W. B. Hilgartner. 1982. Fossil and subfossil birds from the Bahamas. In S. L. Olson, (Ed.). Fossil vertebrates from the Bahamas. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology, 48: 25–55.
Olson, S. L., & J. W. Wiley. 2016. The Blue-headed Quail-Dove (Starnoenas cyanocephala): an Australasian dove marooned in Cuba. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 128: 1–21.
Orihuela, J., L. Pérez Orozco, J. L. Álvarez Licourt, R. A. Viera Muñoz, & C. Santana Barani, 2020. Late Holocene land vertebrate fauna from Cueva de los Nesofontes, Western Cuba: stratigraphy, last appearance dates, diversity and paleoecology. Palaeontologia Electronica 23 (3): a57: doi: 10.26879/995.
Pregill, G. K., D. W. Steadman, & D. R. Watters. 1994. Late quaternary vertebrate faunas of the Lesser Antilles: historical components of Caribbean biogeography, 51 pp.
Raffaele, H. A., J. Wiley, O. H. Garrido, A. Keith, & J. I. Raffaele. 2003. Birds of the West Indies, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 231 pp.
Steadman, D. W., & J. Franklin. 2020. Bird populations and species lost to Late Quaternary environmental change and human impact in the Bahamas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117: 26833–26841.
Steadman, D. W., G. K. Pregill, & S. L. Olson. 1984a. Fossil vertebrates from Antigua, Lesser Antilles: Evidence for late Holocene human-caused extinctions in the West Indies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 81: 4448–4451.
Steadman, D. W., D. R. Watters, E. J. Reitz, & G. K. Pregill. 1984b. Vertebrates from archaeological sites on Montserrat, West Indies. Annals of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 53: 1–29.
Tellkamp, M. P. 2005. Prehistoric exploitation and biogeography of birds in coastal and Andean Ecuador. Dissertation presented for the Graduate School, University of Florida.
Tomek, T., & Z. M. Bochenski. 2009. A key for the identification of domestic bird bones in Europe: Galliformes and Columbiformes, Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, 111 pp.
Van der Klift, H. M. 1992. Faunal remains of the Golden Rock site (pp. 74–84). In: Versteeg A. H., & K. Schinkel (Eds.). The archaeology of ST. Eustatius, the Golden Rock site. Publication of the Foundation for Scientific Research in the Caribbean Region, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Wells, J., & A. Wells. 2001. Pigeons and Doves (pp. 319–325). In: Elphick, C., J. Dunning, & D. Sibley (Eds.). The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Wetmore, A. 1920. Five new species of birds from cave deposits in Porto Rico. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 33: 77–82.
Wetmore, A. 1922a. Bird remains from the caves of Porto Rico. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 46: 297–333.
Wetmore, A. 1922b. Remains of birds from caves in the republic of Haiti. Smithsonian Miscellaneaous Collections, 74: 1–4.
Wetmore, A. 1925. Another record of birds from the Island of St. Croix. The Auk, 42 (3): 446. Wetmore, A. 1937. Bird remains from cave deposits on Great Exuma Island in the Bahamas. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 80: 427–441.
Wiley, J. W. 1991. Ecology and behavior of the Zenaida Dove. Ornitologia Neotropical, 2 (2): 49–75.
Worthy, T. H. 2001. A giant flightless pigeon gen. et sp. nov. and a new species of Ducula (Aves: Columbidae), from Quaternary deposits in Fiji. Journal of the Royal Society of New
Zealand, 31 (4): 763–794.
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Gala, M., Laroulandie, V., & Lenoble, A. (2021). Osteological characters for the identification of Caribbean columbids. Novitates Caribaea, (18), 114–192. https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.vi18.269
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