1895 
Ameoameea 
that I had a pleasant little dose of malarial fever. I went to Mexico, 
saw a doctor, and got a prescription and afterward took plenty of qui- 
nine. By February I had th© fever broken and Mr. 1. came back from 
Mexico. W® then proceeded to do a little work in the vicinity of Ameca 
She place is situated near the base of both Iztaceihuatl and Popocate- 
petl and is the starting point for the ascent of the latter mountain. 
She altitude of the place is about 8000 feet. 
fesrsle at Asecaaeca, February 1 to 7* Geamvss tolerably casaon 
in fee fields. Several were procured. Basscrisi Ceeaaon. Sit ernes two 
in by Indian. It was rather large in size. Heotomas Common along 
Cliffs in hills above town. Arvlcclat I caught a single specimen along 
stream above town. Qrysocsrs I caught one in sob© bushes on a hillside. 
~r covens tracks were seen, 
LVSt freaks were seen. 
Birds at Aiaeeamecai Fes* list of birds see original notebook # 2, 
Vegetations Cypress and oak cover the hill near tarn and probab: 
at one time cypress woods covered 1*© rdiole plain here. In the hill® 
above town firs begin. Maguey plants, corn, wheat, and barley are th© 
principal crops, they us© here a few American plows with two handles 
but hitch animals sometimes stales, usually oxen, to th© plow. She mules 
pull by a yoke lashed across th© back and th® oxen by a ysk© lashed to 
th® horns. 
Uotet We left Ameoa for Yekapixtla February 8 in Morelos, our real 
destination being "fetela del Volcan". Yekapixtla is th© nearest rail* 
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road point to fetela. W@ went to fetela expressly for a kind of Heotoana 
taken near there by Ward some years ago. We failed utterly to find any 
signs of rats. We had great difficulty to get an outfit in Yekapixtla 
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