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Title: Two bird-lovers in Mexico
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Beebe, William, 1877-1962
Subjects: Natural history -- Mexico Birds -- Mexico
Publisher: London, A. Constable & company, ltd. Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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the train, unloading theirbaairaoe, and thus savino- all car-fare. At last we were so hioh that the lare cultivatedfields looked like squares on a checker-board, and thelierds of grazing cattle became tiny black dots. Themost wonderful phenomenon of this ascent was thechansre in vegetation. Oranges and bananas were re-placed by plants of the temperate zone, and before thehigliest ))()int was reached, the vistas of the tropicallowlands were framed in the needle-tracery of cold-loving pines. Three hours travel on this train willteach one more of physical geography than three monthsof study. At Esperanza we were more than a mile abovethe level of the sea, and here the engines were changed,the big fellows to rest a day and to-morrow to slidegently back to Orizaba. As suddenly as we entered the mountains, so with-out warning we left them and found ourselves rushingalong through clouds of dust across a plain, the begin-nin«- of the leat Mexican tableland, which extends •«4 26 ^.
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