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metres, and are found in the midst of the pine forests in company with the Juneo, the Pants, 

 the Ci/anociita, etc. I know not how far this association may be temporary, and whether 

 the presence of a Platypmris and of a Bathrrridurus within the alpine region, be transient or 

 not. Be this as it may, the fact has seemed to me of sufficient interest to be noted here. 



169. Tityra penonata. Vulg. RecMnador. Hot and temperate regions. Common in the 

 hot and temperate portions, not exceeding an elevation of 1200 metres, a little less than 

 that of Orizaba, where it rarely appears. 



170. Erator alMtorques. Hot region. More rare than the preceding species, and confined 

 within the limits of the hot regions. I have never met with it above 600 metres. 



171. Plafypsaris aglaice. Vulg. Sallator. Hot, temperate, and alpine regions. I am led 

 to believe that there are two varieties of this form in the State of Vera Cruz. The one 

 especially found in the hot and temperate regions, of stouter proportions, and in the adult 

 male at least with darker plumage, etc. The other, which I have met with several times in 

 the alpine region, is appreciably inferior in size to the preceding, and with lighter tints in 

 the adult male. It is possible that to the latter variety, the name of P.affinis has been given. 



172. BalhmiJurus major. Hot, temperate, and alpine regions. This name, according to 

 the descriptions before me, appears to belong to all the individuals of the genus Bathrrddurus 

 that I have observed in the department. While some have been met with in the hot and 

 in the temperate portions, I have killed others precisely similar in the pine woods of the 

 alpine region (Moyoapam, 2500 metres). 



Cotingid^:. 



173. Lipangus iinirufus. Hot region. A species characteristic of the hot region, as well 

 as 



174. Manacus candei. Vulg. Turquito bianco. Hot region. 



175. Pipra medalh. Vulg. TurguUo. Hot region. The highest localities in which I have 

 observed these two manikins do not exceed in altitude 600 metres. 



I terminate here, with the grand division of Insessores, this analysis of the principal facts 

 relative to the distribution of birds in the State of Vera Cruz. In giving below the list of 

 the birds that characterize each region, I shall add several of other families not mentioned 

 in the preceding pages. 



Resume. 



From what has now been said, I infer that the department of Vera Cruz, considered as a 

 zoological province, may be divided into three distinct regions, succeeding each other from 

 the east to the west, and each more or less completely characterized by the predominance of 

 certain ornithological forms peculiar to them. 1 



The first of these regions of Vera Cruz, which, in conformity with the usual terms, I call 

 the hot region (tetres chaudes or ticrras culientcs), extends along the Gulf of Mexico, between 

 the departments of Tamaulipas and Tabasco, and from the eastern border gradually rises to 

 an altitude which we may fix approximately as about 600 metres. 



The second or temperate region {tores iemperecs or tierras temphdas), extends from the 

 western confines of the preceding to the foot of the Cordilleras, which form the eastern out- 



l We may further, as it seems to me, consider Mexico as Bainl has indicated for North America. (Amer. Journ. of 

 divided into three grand zoological provinces — the Eastern, Science; on Migration, etc.) 

 the Central, and the Western, similar to those which Prof. 



