PARTIAL LIST OF BIRDS COLLECTED AT ALTA 3I1RA, 

 MEXICO, BY MR. FRANK B. ARMSTRONG. 



By Charles W, Richmond, 



Assistant Curator of the Department of Jlirds. 



The erief list bere given rei)resents some of the species collected 

 by Mr. Frank B. Armstrong at Alta Mira, a small town not far from 

 Tampico, on tbe east coast of Mexico. The list is, of course, only 

 fragmentary as regards the total number of species found in this vicin- 

 ity and contains only those sent to the U. S. National Museum by Mr. 

 Armstrong at intervals during the winter of 1894-95 for identifica- 

 tion. Specimens of most of the species were retaiued for the Natioual 

 Museum collection. 



Quite a number of birds previously known only from southern Mex- 

 ico southward have been recently recorded^ from Tampico and points 

 north of that place, and in some cases even to the Rio Grande. Mr. 

 Armstrong has forwarded several of these, also some additional species 

 not heretofore mentioned from this part of Mexico, and a few interesting 

 winter records of North American species are included. 



The number of specimens mentioned under a species indicates the 

 number sent for identification, and does not give a very correct impres- 

 sion of the abundance or scarcity of a species, as Mr. Armstrong for- 

 warded only a portion of the specimens collected by him. 



1. CRYPTURUS MEXICANUS, Salvadori. 

 MEXICAN TINAMOU. 

 Three specimens (October and November). 



2. COCHLEARIUS ZELEDONI (Ridgway). 



CENTRAL AMERICAN BOAT-BILL. 

 A specimen in fresli plumage (Novend)er 15, 1894). 



3. ARAMIDES ALBIVENTRIS, Lawrence. 



, WHITE-THROATED WOOD-HEN. 



One specimen. 



'Salviu aucl Godman, Ibis, 1889, pp. 232-243; also in Cat. Birds, Brit. Museum. 



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