1892 
Manzanillo 
(Colima) 
Jan. 25 
exactly like those of California. 
The country about here on all the flats and hillsides is covered 
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with a more car less abundant growth of bushes and low trees, with a 
large amount of email mesquite trees on the flats. Many of the trees 
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and bushes are thorn bearers. Along the lagoons of brackish water is 
a narrow belt of mangroves on which several species of herons and a 
cormorant are fond of perching. Under this shelter the erocodiles 
crawl ashore. 
A law protects the buzzards and as a consequence they are very 
abundant and careless about presence of people. The Black Vulture is 
most numerous, then the Turkey Buzzard and the Caraeara Eagle come next 
On flats and southerly hillslopee the trails of a large rufous- 
backed Beotoma are everywhere like a network. On a broad belt of low 
land adjacent to shore of sea and lagoons and extending some distance 
up the hillsides, the land crabs abound. Hermit erabs also occur near 
shore. Spermophilus annulatus. and a dark gray Sciurus are found on 
hillsides. The weather is warm, but not too much so for one to work. 
The main effect of the heat so far upon both myself and man is to 
render us very .nervous so that at night we find it very difficult to 
sleep. 
Jan. 26 Continued collecting about the immediate vicinity of the town, 
to 
Jan. 31 Took a fine leopard cat called Mococuan by the people here. It was 
trapped within half a mile of town. The town contains only some 400 
people and is supported by the traffic with Colima, for which place it 
is the seaport. 
The polioe here walk about day and night armed with a large 45 cal. 
revolver hung to their belt in addition to the orthodox club. Nearly 
everyone coming to town from the country either carries a rifle or a 
