:::::::::C TWO BIRD- LOVERS IN MEXICO B^— - 



voluntarily to invert itself was a Condor, and that took 

 place in cajDtivity. 



Like their distant cousins the kingfishers, these 

 birds bore a tunnel into a vertical bank and make their 

 nest at the end, six or eight feet within the dark earth. 

 The pure beauty of the water-lily is conceived in the 

 filthy, noisome mud at the bottom of the pond, and 

 the delicate hues of tlie Motmot are actpiired in a 

 black, ill-smelling", underground hole. 



We shall ever regret not seeing these birds during 

 the period of nesting, but as with almost all other birds 

 in this countrv that occurs later in the year. One must 

 visit Mexico in the s})ring to study the birds at the 

 most interesting of all times — the breeding-season. 



TWIN PEAKS OF COLIMA VOLCANO 



