At a Bend in a Mexican River

As you drive from Cuidad Victoria to Cuidad Mante you'll pass roadside stands offering mango pie and then you'll reach a turnoff to a dirt road leading to Azteca. Take that road about a mile (if it's not too muddy) and you'll reach the Rio Sabinas. Just before you reach the river you'll pass the homestead owned by the family of Everts Storms, mentioned in this work and others. Walk over a suspended bridge and stand high over the water, and you can almost see George M Sutton and his associates diligently seeking out what was then the little known birdlife of southwestern Tamaulipas. Read accounts like this if you want to be transported to another time, before birders discovered places like Gomez Farias and the El Cielo Biosphere Preserve. Overlook the "collecting" that is so frequently mentioned; we view the world through different prisms today. Birders planning a trip to the region will want to read this strictly for the historical perspective, but even non-birding friends have expressed appreciation for this work. Birders will want to have a modern checklist with scientific names handy, since some of the nomenclature found here is no longer in use.