. Bird lore . Entered as second-class mail matter in the Post Office at Hartisburg, 1. Macgillivrays Warbler, Male. 2. Macgillivrays Warbler, Female, 5. 3. Mourning Warbler, Male. 4. Mourning Warbler, Warbler, Young Male. A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINEDEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OF BIRDS Official Organ of the Audubon Societics Vol. VII May —June, 1905 No. 3 The Motmots of our Mexican Camp By C. WILLIAM BEEBECurator of Ornithologfy, New York Zoological Park With photographs by the author NEXT to actually discovering a new and interesting fact of naturalhistory, comes the ple
. Bird lore . Entered as second-class mail matter in the Post Office at Hartisburg, 1. Macgillivrays Warbler, Male. 2. Macgillivrays Warbler, Female, 5. 3. Mourning Warbler, Male. 4. Mourning Warbler, Warbler, Young Male. A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINEDEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OF BIRDS Official Organ of the Audubon Societics Vol. VII May —June, 1905 No. 3 The Motmots of our Mexican Camp By C. WILLIAM BEEBECurator of Ornithologfy, New York Zoological Park With photographs by the author NEXT to actually discovering a new and interesting fact of naturalhistory, comes the pleasure of verifying one of which we have read ;and our first meeting with the Mexican Motmot {Momotus mexi-canus), and the observing of his peculiar habits, brought as sincere a thrill ofdelight as if we had been the first to report them. It was a sultry day in late January in the mountains of west-centralMexico when we first saw a live Motmot. Our camp was pitched near agrove of magnificent wild fig trees bordering a stream in one of the greatgorges or barrancas which radiate from
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