PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Issued W, 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Vol.93 Washington: 1943 No. 3164 



THE BIRDS OF SOUTHERN VERACRUZ, MEXICO 



By Alexander Wetmore 



- The present account relates to the birds found in the Canton of the 

 Tuxtlas, in southern Veracruz, and is based on collections and studies 

 made in 1939 and 1940. It includes also some additional data obtained 

 at Tlacotalpam nearby, with other information from El Conejo, lo- 

 cated* about midway between Tlacotalpam and Alvarado, among the 

 sandhills that extend along the coast. Most of the observations were 

 made near the village of Tres Zapotes, around the camp of the Nation- 

 al Geographic Society-Smithsonian Institution Archeological Ex- 

 pedition to Veracruz, which was occupied here in extended excavations 

 under the leadership of Matthew W. Stirling, chief of the Bureau 

 of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution (see map, 

 p. 217). 



In brief, my personal work in 1939 covered the period from March 

 5 to April 16. The following year other duties prevented my return, 

 but the collections and observations were continued by M. A. Carriker, 

 Jr., who was in the field from January 13 to May 21, 1940. Our 

 records seem fairly complete for the area that we covered, though no 

 tropical region can be completely known without years of study. Our 

 notes cover 291 forms of birds that were certainly identified. 



The investigations were carried on in 1939 under permits granted 

 through the cooperation of Sehor Juan Zinser, then Jefe del Servicio 

 de Caza, Departamento Forestal y de Caza y Pesca, and in 1940 

 from the succeeding director of this service, Senor Salvador Guer- 

 rero. We are indebted deeply to General Alejandro Manje, Co- 

 mandante of the 26 a Zona Militar en Veracruz, for the authorizations 



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