Rawston 1941 Journal 14 August 1. Boca del Rio to 8 mi. WNW Jalapa, 7500', Vera Cruz, Mexico. Hired a dugout canoe & boatman (10 pesos) and were poled up the Rio Jamapa (both forks) from 7 AM to 1 PM. Got ashore at several places & collected. Red mangrove (with long fruits), tallgrass, pig trees, & mangrove fern bordered the river, the first being most abundant. Many crabs - some brown & bright red, and others pale dirty white or blue were among the mangroves and made off with a seedeater which C.G.S. shot. The birds seen included: Manof War Bird, Little Blue Heron (coll.), Green Heron (nest with young sem), American Egret, Wood Stis, Turkey Vulture, Black Vulture, a flock of migrating (Buteos?) with white (some buffy) rump otherwise all dark. No white tip to tail, Caracara, Laughing Falcon, Jacana, Charadrius collaris, Semipal Plover, Spotted & Least Sandpipers, Franklin's Gull (2ads in worn plumage), Cabots, Common & Least Terns, Black Skimmer, Red- billed Pigeon, Ruddy & Mexican Ground Doves, Groove-billed Ani, Buff-bellied Hummingbird, Amazon, Little Green, & Ringed Kingfishers, Dryobates scalaris, Centurus santacruzi; Conde kingbird, Derby, Girard & Beardless Flycatchers, Platypsar is aglaciae, mangrove swallow, Gray-breasted Martin, Helodytes zonatus, Black & white Warbler, Redwing, Boat-tailed Grackle, Chamaethlypis, Hooded Oriole, Blue Tanagers, Volatinia, Cinnamon-rumped Seedeater. Ate lunch at Boca del Rio and drove to a point 8 miles