1892 
Jesus Maria 
San L, Potosi 
(San L, Potosi) 
Querendaro 
(Michoaean) 
first ones were taken at the mouth of the Armaria liver, Colima, and 
were as , . . (several pages missing from original notebook) , 
Get. 1 - Came up from Jesus Maria on the Baelonal road this morning, 
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1 went down there day before yesterday to hunt birds and especially to 
get a kind of blue jay found there of which 1 had taken am before, 
(Jet down there* five jays, 2 woodpeckers, 2 shrikes, 5 Indigo birds, 
2 warblers, 1 graekle, and 1 hank* Besides the birds named are founds 
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Mexican sparrow-hawk, Brown Papillio, Oathartes 
Flicker, Thrush, Oriole, a mall wren, at least two kinds mall sparrows, 
at least four flycatchers, 
1 intend to take the train tonight for Querendaro, Michoaean, San 
Luis Potosi is situated on a plain covered with cactus of many kinds. 
Yucca or Spanish bayonet. Along dry washes that run froa the hills grew 
pepper trees, willows, and cottonwoods. She climate is very dryj the 
hills to the south of San Luis are almost solid rockjon theaa grow, how- ' 
ever, several kinds of oak, pinoa, several kinds pin®, mansanita, and 
other shrubs. 
Oct, 2 » Arrived today at 10*30, Left San Luis as intended at 5*30 
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and arrived in Aoas&aro where I changed at 8*20 a,m. today. Found the 
vegetation much farther advanced than it was in August, of course. Lake 
Quitsco, with its islands and herons, looks about the same. This and 
Patseuaro with its lake and the region around it make up the finest 
country I have yet seen in Mexico, The whole country is flaming with 
miriads of flowers, I set some meat traps this afternoon and hunted 
for rabbits this evening. Two specimens (rabbits) taken here before are 
different from any taken elsewhere so I cam© here ahead of Mr, B. on 
purpose to try to get a larger series, I did not see one this evening 
