1892 
Jesus Maria 
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Sept. IS - It has been raining almost continuously since first 
shower it rained last night, and the sky is still overcast today, I 
have taken nothing since the rain began. 
Sept. 14 - Last ni^it trapped for first time since rain* got two 
Pinodccaya. 2 small jumpers, and one Sj/gnodon. lav© out a fall battery 
as usual tonight. She small five-toed rat found her© has burrows 
principally along dry washes in sandy ground. The specimen of Sjptodon 
taken was from a dry sandy flat but nearby ms a dry wash and same 
rather damp banks. Saw a male grosbeak this afternoon, the first noted 
her© so far. Shot yesterday a ssaall bird very much resembling a fly- 
catcher in actions. In color it is a bright yellow with same darker 
color on top of head. 
Here also along the dry washes and generally in same location as 
five-toed jumpers and some others a small form of Spernonhllaa spllosoma 
literally swarms. It is almost Impossible to distinguish between them 
by their holes. The Spenaophile makes holes running into the ground 
sidewise in many cases, I get Speraophiles in traps left out all day 
almost every day. 
I forgot to mention that the morning of the 11th last, I got three 
small five-toed rats and three four-toed or Dioodoays . The form of 
Eater oays found first at La Parada and afterward at Ihualulco and this 
place is not believed in Washington to be what E.W.N. thought. We went 
to La Parada expressly to get a species of Hetercears described from 
La Parada, Mexico, and thought w© had struck the type locality but have 
since learned that another hacienda in Durango is also called La Parada. 
They say in W. that they think this is not the place although nothing 
more is none of the type locality other than that it is La Parada, Hex. 
This form is undoubtedly much larger than anything before taken. The 
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