1894 
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Orizaba 
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slop® of Mount Popocatapetl fear our Ms© of operations and we made camp 
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at about 9000 feet altitude under a large fir tree. We took several 
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native hunters up with us to whoa Mr, 1, offered a good price for sped- 
boss of the rabbit mentioned, W© found their runways very eaiEacm among 
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the large grass and some of their holes entering the ground, and first 
tried snaring them with wire loops fastened to sticks driven in the 
ground, but without success - probably because most of our loops were too 
small, Mr, 1, shot one of the rabbits, the natives killed three, and I 
trapped three with steel traps set in runways and places which were evi- 
dently much used by the animals,- seven specimens in all. Those trapped 
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by s© were all taken during on® night in about 32 traps, I sst some 
traps for gophers and got a specimen very different apparently from 
thing taken. The most notable thing about it was two large bright yellow 
spots, one under ©aoh ©ye, I trapped afterward on Mount Iztaeeihuatl ex- 
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pecting to get the same species but had all ay traps stolen but five, in 
one of which I found a gray colored gopher whose skull appeared to differ 
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considerably from that of either the Mount P, specimen or those of Geemrs 
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merriasd that w© had on hand. She natives said it was impossible to cross 
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from Mb, P, to Mb, Is, on top of the divide, but we made it with very 
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little difficulty, Mr, lei son went to the "City* 1 and left me to get addi- 
tional specimens of the gophers when I had my traps stolen. 
She weather was clear and fin© during the trip, Tha days were quite 
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warm end sunny and the nights were frosty, I saw a weasel enter a hole 
at the base of a bush near cur ©amp m It, P, but a trap baited with seat 
set at the entrance was untouched in the morning. 
I returned to Mexico January 9th, We made tip the specimens and got 
off for Orizaba January 11th, The scenery along the railroad froa a few 
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miloE east of Esperanza, Puebla, where the high tableland of Mexico suddenly 
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