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88 Tochimilco
along the base of the hills. (2) A large cotton-tail is found among the hills and gets up some distance among the pines.
Birds.
Columbigallina passerina?  A dove having rufous under wing coverts perhaps this species was found [[strikethrough]] along[[/strikethrough]] on the thick brushy hillsides but not very common.
Scardafella inca. Common in the orchards and immediate neighborhood of the town.
Cathartes aura. Common.
Catharista atrata. Common
Falco sparverius. Common.
Glaucidium gnoma.  I heard them in the evening on several
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occasions.
Colaptes cafer. Tolerably among the oaks on the hills.
Chaetura brunneitorques. I saw swifs presumably this species flying over the hills.
Uranomitra. Tolerably on hillsides wherever flowers were blooming.
Amazalia beryllina. Quite common I often saw them searching probably for insects on the mistletoe.
Basilinna leucotis. Common. This species is in the habit of quietly on a dead branch usually on the extreme top of a tree for five minutes or more at a time and uttering a kind of
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