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ator there. On the tenth of July, as we sat on the steps of 

 the office, we saw many individuals of the migrating butter- 

 fly Timetes chiron. They were flying from north to south 

 and consequently down the mountain, and although we 

 made no actual count it seemed a case of true migration. 



On July 12 P. took up his quarters in the office, which ac- 

 cording to his aneroid was situated at an elevation of about 

 6875 feet, consequently about 2100 feet higher than Cartago. 

 It was a small one-story frame structure divided into a nar- 

 row passage leading to the little window where telegrams 

 and postal matter could be received and distributed (for the 

 post office was also located here) and four rooms communi- 

 cating with each other, while a fifth compartment was at 

 this time devoted to ducks and chickens. The building 

 was raised a couple of feet above the ground but this space 

 below was not enclosed. Each room had one window; the 

 sashes in the window slid up and down in a country where 

 most windows are casements, but had no sash cords and the 

 upper sash was fast. My bed was a canvas stretcher cov- 

 ered with a straw matting. Seiior Tristan lent me a pillow 

 but had warned me to bring covers for my cot as he had only 

 his own, but the wind blew hard those nights and so much 

 came through the cracks between the boards of the walls 

 and floor that it was decidedly chilly. Besides the ducks 

 in the fifth room there was a recently hatched duckling and 

 its "hatcher," an elderly hen, who spent the nights in Senor 

 Tristan's bedroom and had the run of the four rooms during 

 the twenty-four hours if they so desired, for there were no 

 doors to separate the rooms from each other. It was just 

 as well, therefore, that there were no floor coverings, other- 

 wise hen and duckling would not have improved them. 



Tierra Blanca at this time had 137 males over twenty-one 

 years of age and its total population was about 500. Most 

 of its houses were on the eastern road from Cartago, which 



