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BIRDS OF NEW MEXICO 
1892-1893. Edgar Alexander Mearns (1856-1916). 
While connected with the Mexican Boundary Survey, Dr. Mearns during the 
summers of 1892 and 1893 traversed the entire length of the southern boundary 
of New Mexico. Many birds were collected, part of the specimens being taken 
in New Mexico and the rest on the Mexican side of the line, but seldom more than 
five miles from New Mexico and usually within a mile of the boundary. Use 
has been made of all of Mearns’ records but in each case there is an explicit state¬ 
ment as to which side of the line the specimen was taken. Most of these records 
have not been previously published. Mearns was assisted in his collecting by Frank 
Xavier Holzner. The boundary survey began at the west bank of the Rio Grande, 
where collecting commenced February 17, 1S92. The principal collecting stations 
were: Monument No. 15, about 50 miles west of the Rio Grande, March 20-April 
7; Palomas Lakes, Chihuahua, one mile south of Monument No. 21, April 7-15; 
Carrizalillo Springs, N. Mex., near Monument No. 33, April 15-22; Monument No. 
40, where the boundary line turns south near longitude 108° W.,-April 22-May 
15; Big Hatchet Mountains, N. Mex., part of May 18-25; Moscpiito Springs, Chi¬ 
huahua, near Monument No. 46, part of May 10-21; and Dog Spring, N. Mex., 
near Monument No. 55, where large collections were made at various times from 
May 21-June 13, 1892, and September 15-23, 1893; Whitewater, Chihuahua, a 
mile south of Monument No. 61, part of May 30-June 29,1892, and part of September 
10-23, 1893; San Luis Mountains, where the main camp on the east side was at 
San Francisco Canyon, five miles southwest of Monument No. 63, while the main 
camp on the west side was at San Luis Springs, now known as Lang’s Ranch, on 
the New Mexico side of the line at Monument No. 66. Trips were made to various 
parts of the mountains and to the summits during part of June and July, 1892, 
and August 31-October 2, 1893; Cajon Bonito Creek, Chihuahua, head of the 
right fork, six miles south of Monument 67, part of July 1-24, 1892, and of Sep¬ 
tember 8-28, 1893; Animas Valley at Monument 67 and Cloverdale, N. Mex., at 
the west side of the valley, six miles north of Monument 69. At the latter place 
collections were made July 14-18, 1892, while the Animas Valley was crossed seven 
times in July, 1892, and in August and October, 1893. 
1893-1894. Ernest Thompson Seton (1860- ). 
From October 22, 1893, to February 5, 1894, Seton was riding the range in 
eastern Union County, hunting bobcats, wolves and coyotes, “with especial com¬ 
mission to destroy the Currumpa Pack of gray wolves for the L. V. Fitz-Randolph 
LF Ranch.” During this time he incidentally collected birds and made field 
notes on about 100 species, working in the “Brakes of the Cimarron,” and at Cur¬ 
rumpa, Clayton, Perico, Clapham, and Penabetitos, in the drainage of the Canadian 
River. 
1895- 1897. Charles M. Barber. 
In 1895 Barber sent the Biological Survey a report on the current spring bird 
arrivals at Halls Peak; and later, as a student at the New Mexico Agricultural 
College, collected in the vicinity of Mesilla Park, his specimens going to the museum 
°f the college. 
1896- 1897. Sidney Stuart Wilson. 
Wilson spent the summers of 1896 and 1S97 at Fort Bayard. Part of his notes 
were published as: Some Additional New Mexican Birds (Auk, XVI, pp. 188-189, 
1899). 
