1892 
(Colima) 
Feb. 3 
to 
Feb. 14 
Manzanillo 
(Colima) 
Feb, 16 
to 
Feb. 18 
beautiful spoonbills besides many other water-birds. In a little 
marshy bay of the lagoon near Tepeloate a spur-winged Jaoana is quite 
ccffmaon. 1 saw 5 or 6 at a time feeding along the border of the water. 
Cattle are numerous and seem to do very well on the brushy country 
here. The tigers get a few at times, bub their natural enemies seem 
to be few and the animals seen were in good condition. Vfoen the 
ranoheros here wish to drive cattle here they pub a rope about the 
neck of the one to be driven and then make it fast to the horn of a 
tame ox or bull and so take the animal along trails through a dense 
thicket of thorny bushes where no one could drive unruly animals. 
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Everyone goes armed with rifle or revolver here, and all carry the 
machete slung to the saddle b« on left hand side, A broad leather 
apron is fitted over the horn of saddle and hangs down to the feet 
and extends back over the legs and hips so to protect the person from 
thorns in riding through the dense thorny brush that is everywhere here, 
I found Eusebio and his wife very simple, good-natured people. 
Vshen I went there, he told me to pay what I liked and expressed him¬ 
self perfectly satisfied with what I gave him. 
I stayed here 3 days drying and packing skins and was fortunate 
enough to get a fine lot of bats (Sacoopteryx) from the roof of the 
steamship company’s warehouse. The bats were hanging from the roof 
by the hundred, each one by itself, and if another lit close by one 
it would walk quickly to one side 2 or 3 inches. 
At an old storehouse of the R.R. Co., I found a half dozen leaf¬ 
nosed bats hanging together in a cluster. On the 18th, 1 took the 
train and moved up to Armerla, a small place on the Armaria River, 
where I found quarters in the house of a small storekeeper there. 
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