1894 
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Orizaba, 
(Tea ra Cruz) 
ends is magnificent, She railroad ■winds down along the mountainside, 
passing through about seven tunnel sj one can look down several thousand 
feet and see points on the railroad at least fero hours before the train 
readies than, Statable among them is llaltrata, a point on the railroad 
near which are numerous squar© fields on nh ich different crops are raised 
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giving -fee whole the appearance of a great eheckboard when seen from above. 
We west to the Hotel de la Bor da and engaged a room. 
Both of us were disappointed in the City of Orizaba, 1% found a 
dirty team with wretched streets and very fm buildings more -than one 
story in height, and the vegetation in the neighborhood is by no means so 
luxuriant as that at Jalapa on the later oceanic railroad. 
We could not gat a suitable place to work at the hotel m& 1 lot feed 
up some rooms in which we have since established ourselves, A Mexican 
collector. Bon Pecho S, faro, lives here and from him we got s« infer. n- 
tion, 
1 went bade to San Andros do Ghalehleaarala on the 18th with a set of 
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traps for additional specimens of the Qeesws meat , found there and which 
were very hard t© trap when w@ were there during the dryer part of the 
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year last year, I trapped two nights } scoured seven spec toe as arid re- 
turned to Crisaba on the 15th where I arrived about 3 p,m, and set ourt 
sos® mouse traps in the ditches along the railroad above town. Got a 
reddish colored Slamodoa, dark Sltcacra. Reithrodontomys, what wo took to 
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to Oryzaar/s. and some mice appearing much like Relthrodontoavs but having 
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no grooves in upper incisors. About 17 specimens all, told. 
The following night I trapped only for meat animals and secured a 
fox and a civet eat. Last night I caught another fox, two Blsrinaa- ? 
and a r.jdelehvs of a species I have never seen before. It is not so 
large, if this one is full gram, as the common species, P, virginlanas. 
and has much finer for, dark gray in general color, rich orange below 
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