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119 SHORT COMMUNICATIONS Clearly the dispute over the taxonomy ofthe Agile Tit. Naranjo Depto de Biologa Universidad del Valle AA 25360 Cali Colombia Key words Blackish Rail Pardirallus nigricans nest eggs incubation Colombia The Blackish Rail Pardirallus nigricans is one of the least common rails in southwestern Colom bia Hilt Sealy1 Julio E Snchez2 Rafael G Campos R3 Manuel Marin4 1 Department of Zoology University of Manitoba Winnipeg Manitoba R3T 2N2 Canada 2Museo Nacional de Costa Rica Apartado 7491000 San Jos Costa Rica 3Apartado 49 Grecia 4100 Costa Rica 4Museum of W HITFIELD AND AYA S F P IERCE The Evergreen State College Olympia Washington 98505 USA BSTRACT We assessed the importance of tree buttresses as a microhabitat for leaflitter amphibians and reptiles in a tropical wet forest in Costa Rica by making c CrypticandConspicuousColorPatterns Figure2: N …written and in the form of video.. Short, Short, Fiction. There is a genre of short story called “Flash Fiction”, or “micro-Fiction”. In the far east they are referred to as “Smoke Log Stories”. You may have heard these stories being called “Post Card Stories”.. Instituto Nacional de Limnolog *Centro de Transposi *Centro de Transposi 625 SHORT COMMUNICATIONS at the same time. The two colonies with nonest associated were the smallest ones, withonly two and three active cacique nests. Thelargest of the colonies was monitored duringf 346RAGUSA-NETTOINTRODUCTIONToucans Ramphastidae inhabit a wide rangeof Neotropical areas occurring from dry totall rain forests Short Horne 2002 Theseprominent birds use large home ranges inwhich the Characiformes CharacidaeFlvio CT Lima and Jansen ZuanonAstyanaxdnophos from the rapids of the lower rio Xingucolumn In these low light conditions the fishs iridescentEtymology species De Filippi the Centro de Transposio de Peixes UFMG Avenida Antnio Carlos 6627 31270-901 Belo Horizonte MG BrazilPrograma de Ps-Graduao em Engenharia Mecnica UFMG e Centro Universitrio de Belo Horizonte UNI-BH Av Pro 364GARCA-MORENO FJELDSINTRODUCTIONPhylogenetic relationships among tanagers ofthe genus Hemispingus have been confusingThe taxonomic relationships among the 12traditionally recognized species are far