A Years' Collecting in the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico
1911; Oxford University Press; Volume: 28; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/4071494
ISSN1938-4254
Autores Tópico(s)Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
Resumowork in the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico, collecting the series of birds which is listed below.The work was continued for one year.The localities visited ranged from Matamoros, at the northeast extremity of the State, to Altamira in the extreme south.Most of the time, however, was spent in the hill region west and north of Ciudad Victoria in the valleys of the Sierra Madre mountains, which here form the western boundary of the State of Tamaulipas, and along the river valleys east of the mountains.It may be well to mention here the general character of the stations represented by the collection, beginning with Matamoros.The country about Matamoros is the level valley bottom of the Rio Grande, where the general vegetation is chaparal, bunch cactus and mesquite, at a level of only eighty feet above the sea.San Fernando, some seventy miles south on the River Presos, is also near the coast, and is surrounded by a country very much like that of the Rio Grande Valley, and of low elevation.These regions were visited in August, October, December and February.The intermediate region embraces the several localities lying north and west of Ciudad Victoria.It can be roughly divided into a mountain region: Santa Leonor, and the hill settlements of Realito, Carricitos, Montelunga, Galindo, Rampahuila, Portrero, Guiaves; and a plain region, embracing the following river localities: Santa Engracia, Caballeros, Cuidad Victoria, Martinez and La Cruz.Both of these regions were visited in autumn,
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