1893 
Canitas 
(Zacatecas) 
Mexico City 
(Mexico) 
1894 
Orizaba 
(Vera Gras) 
Enisle until a late hour. People trap and shoot one occasionally and 
3«st one dozen coyote tails tang from a wall in the corral here, 
• December 31-1 left Canitas the morning of December 28 for Zacatecas 
where 1 had to stop over one day for mail, and the morning of the 27th I 
took the train for Berriosabol in the southern part of the state 
(Zacatecas) where 1 trapped tw © nights with very good success, an* - 
taking the train there far this place December 29-1 arrived here on 
the morning of the 30th, 
Pound Hr, Kelson had already arrived 3 days before me, % last ni$tt*s 
catch at Barrioz&bel consisted of 33 specimens which included three species 
of jumping rats, fhomoays, two species of Sitemra. . Parogaathus . Hater pests. 
1 shot two small speraophtles and some boys brought me a rabbit which I 
bought of them. Sprat most of the 80th making them up. They are to be 
the first specimens of our new collection. The mailer of the two species 
of Dlpodonys wag different from anything before taken as it had consider- 
able black on the nose and across face and a tail tipped with white and 
on which were longer and blacker hairs than in the ether snail species. 
January 18, 1894 - W® got off to toeeameea from the City January 3rd, 
Found Boa Manuel Tuado, the proprietor of the hotel where w© stopped 
nearly a year before standing at the door of the backyard facing the train 
just as be used to do before , He greeted us with a cunning sails and gent 
us to the south room upstairs facing the mountains,- the room we occupied ■ 
before with Hr, Bialand. We could not get horses until the 3th and I ©ear. 
ployed ay time meanwhile getting four or five of the Gerays maryirmi 
found there and one of the objects of our trip to Ameea. We intended at 
first to go up on the slope of Iztaccihuatl for specimens of Lepua diasi. 
but from accounts given by the natives, Mr. Kelson finally chose the 
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