Messrs. Salvin and Godman on Mexican Birds. 2,33 



bourhood of Vera Cruz, proceeded by sea to Tampico, with 

 instructions to work the tropical forest northwards in the 

 direction of the Rio Grande. This he carried out, and after 

 spending some time in the neighbourhood of Tampico itself, 

 he travelled northwards nearly parallel to the coast as far as 

 Soto la Marina, when, having left the forest behind him, he 

 turned westward to Ciudad Victoria, and thence into the 

 forest-clad mountains of the Eastern Sierra Madre, and 

 reached an elevation of 5000 feet above the sea and upwards. 

 He then returned direct to Tampico, and leaving the coast 

 he went westward to San Luis Potosi, Aguas Calientes, Za- 

 catecas, and the Sierra of Valparaiso and the mountains 

 beyond ; thence he returned home. 



Mr. F. B. Armstrong, of Corpus Christi, Texas, crossed the 

 Rio Grande at Laredo, and thence travelled to Monterey, 

 Montemorelos, the most southern point visited by him being 

 close to Ciudad Victoria; the district worked by him thus 

 joining Mr. Richardson^s. 



Mr. William Lloyd, of Marfa, Texas, crossed the Rio 

 Grande at Presidio del Norte and proceeded to Chihuahua, 

 and thence went to Alamos and the western slope of the 

 Sierra Madre of Sonora and Northern Sinaloa, and returned 

 by a more southern route to Chihuahua. 



Mr. and Mrs. Herbert H. Smith spent some timeatTeapa, 

 in the province of Tabasco, subsequently at Atoyac, on the 

 railway between Vera Cruz and Mexico city, and lastly in 

 the State of Guerrero on the Sierra Madre del Sur, between 

 the Rio Mescala and the port of Acapulco on the Pacific. 



Sefior Ferrari-Perez made a large collection of birds from 

 the environs of the city of Mexico itself, which we have had 

 the opportunity of examining. 



On leaving Mexico, one of Godman^s collectors, Mateo 

 Trujillo, make an excursion from Jalapa to the forests of the 

 Cofre de Perote and to the slopes of the Cordillera in the 

 direction of Misantla. 



It is from an examination of the results of these collections 

 that the following notes have been derived. 



