1893 
Santa Rosalia 
Chihuahua 
floor in their stead. The hotel ms kept by a widow and her two daughters 
whoa the mother ms having very hard work to keep in the path of virtue, 
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At the hotel we met a contractor named Ineesol and a civil engineer named 
Egidy. I trapped in all directions and did fairly well in small animals, 
Three species of jumping rats were rather common. Two of thesa belonging 
to the gems Diuodoays lived on th® higher ground and the other Perognathus 
lived along the river in the lower situations , W® stayed here until the 
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23th and then left for Chihuahua, 
Leaving Santa Eosalia about 5 o*el 0 ck p,n., a ride of four hours 
through a barren rather hilly country brought us to Chihuahua, % took a 
hack at the station and rode to the Hotel Robinson, Mr, Raison started 
north the evening of the 2?th. I spent the part of my vacation up to 
October 13th studying Spanish, th© Birds of Rorfeh America, etc, 
October 19 « % gun earn© about the 15th and since that time I have 
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hem amusing myself collecting a few birds. Went out across the river 
early with the coach of the Hotel which meets the southbound morning 
train. Hunted along th© river until chased off by the administrator 
who said he was afraid I would shoot same of the "gent®” that take eare 
of the crops (chiefly com) along the river. 
The country here as gfe Santa Eosalia is dry, stonay, and barren and 
no crops ar© raised except along the river where good corn and melons, 
also a little fruit, grow. The principal trees here all of which grow 
only along the river are willow, cottonwood, and poplar. The poplars 
have boon planted. Me sorites and other thorny bushes grot? on the hills 
and plains but very few cacti so far as ay observations have extended, 
I find plenty of signs of perhaps all the small mammals taken at Santa 
Rosalia excepting the large Mcodarors o f which to far I have seen no 
signs, I killed 13 birds and on© cottontail today. 
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