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LIST OF BIRDS COLLECTED IX THE TERRITORY OF 



QUINTANA ROO, MEXH 0, IN THE WINTER AND 



SPRING OF M) I-'. 



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hi ring the months of January, February, March and .April, 

 1912, I accompanied the expedition of the Peabody .Museum of 

 Harvard University as representative of the Museum of ( lompara- 

 fcive Zodlo 



My entire t i 1 1 n • wa i Bpent along the Hondo River, collecting on 

 the Mexican lide in the newly-formed Territory of Quintana Roo, 

 although M- i . R E. Merwin and C. I>. Hay, representing the 

 Peabody Mu eum of American Archaeology and Ethnology made a 

 trip of eleven weeks into the interior, crossing the border into 

 ( !ampeche. 



The collection of aboul 375 skins representing L32 species of 

 birds was made principally a1 two points along the Hondo IJ> 

 The camps of the C. C. Mengel and Bro. Co of Louisville, K.y., 

 cutting mahogany on ;i large concession thirty i miles from the 

 mouth of the river; known hereafter as Camp Mengel, and at 

 Xcopen ;i small town about fifteen miles upstream from Camp 

 Men 



It- i'i' these two places, we made a ihort trip to Bacalar, but 

 took few pecimen i. 



Willi the exception of the week ipenton the Bacalar trip, and a 

 month (Februarj 8 March LO) a1 Xcopen, my time was ipent at 

 Camp Mengel where circumstances were particularly favorable 

 for tropical collecting, ince a narrow gauge lumber railroad ran 

 i liiii -. miles northwest into the interior. The bu ih near the camp 



rendered easily accessible by many foot paths, while a la 

 potrero, clearings, and underbrushed woods all made p) ■ 

 ;in<l l>ii<l more readily approached and recovered. 



At Xcopen there wa i only ;i muddy mule road and ;i trail along 

 the river which could be followed. On both lides of these nigh- 

 a thick jungle which made ii both difficult to lee and to 

 recover bird 



