70 Phillips, Birds of Tamaulipas, Mexico. [jan. 



the slopes above this point, the only bird of the species seen here. 

 Afterwards, in an entirely different locality, many were taken. 

 They will be mentioned further on in the description of Galindo. 



"The next place is Montelunga, situated on a little plateau, 

 "mesa," or table-land, at an elevation about 5000 feet. Here the 

 trees are all tall pines, except in a canon which skirts the place, 

 where tall trees like elms are found, and some underbrush. 



"Azure Bluebirds were taken on the table-lands; also Boucard's 

 Sparrow; several species of warblers in migration; Couch's Jay; 

 woodpeckers, etc.; and in the canon, solitaire or "silgara" wrens, 

 and trogons. 



"The next station Galindo is peculiarly well adapted for bird 

 collecting. It is really a wide canon with great slopes on each side, 

 towering to a height of several thousand feet, and shutting in a 

 valley of some miles of dense, damp virgin forest. The mountain 

 sides shut out the winds, and make Galindo as silent as night. At 

 one end of the valley is a small settlement of miners — only a few 

 houses. At the other end is the forest the trees in which attain to 

 so great a height that a charge of shot will not reach the upper 

 branches. 



"Among the birds taken here were hummingbirds of different 

 kinds, attracted by the great variety of flowers and air plants. 

 The shady depths of this place are the home of two species of 

 whippoorwill, and in about the same spots we found a number of 

 Smith's Nightingale Thrush, and the Fulvous Nightingale Thrush. 

 They, like many other birds, were placed by their note, which was 

 heard plainly through the stillness of the forest. Throughout this 

 same damp forest were found various warblers, vireos, tanagers, 

 trogons, thrushes, etc., and on the slopes, jays, woodpeckers, and 

 other forms that inhabit the mountains everywhere. 



"Realito, at a still higher elevation, is also a mining settle- 

 ment of two or three huts near a spring close to the summit of a 

 big mountain, the country is level or rolling, and covered with 

 pines and oaks. Here the birds differed a little from those of 

 Galindo. 



"Similar in character are Rampahuila and Portrero, mining 

 camps nearby. 



"Guiaves canon is like Galindo, but is narrower and its slopes 



