1692 
Armeria 
(Colima) 
Feb. 23 
to 
Feb. 29 
March 4 
the other people, end a constant succession of pigs, chickens, donkeys, 
and 2 tame doer is found in the house,- the animals passing through it 
to a corral in the rear, or out again, as they like. 
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I vmn prepared to leave here some days ago when some mouse traps 
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set at the mouth of the river in some low land grown up to canes, 
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grass, and weeds gave a return of two species of mice. I then stayed 
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over and the next day two other species were taken, and I have a fine 
lot now as a reward for perseveringly setting traps in all kinds of 
localities. 
Have secured 3 deer here also and a species of squirrel differing 
from Allen’s cervical is. but having rusty rump and neck patches. 
They are very rare, as I have had men in the woods here day after 
day and these are the only two that have been obtained,- end two 
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others were seen. The people here, or several at least, have told 
me that there were plenty of squirrels here, and on questioning them 
they thought they might see 2 in a day’s hunting. The actual results 
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have been one squirrel for a week’s work by 2 or 3 hunters who, while 
looking for other game also watched for them. 
A fine Fells was brought in the night of the second. It was 
killed among the coooanut palms a few miles from here, and is a 
different species from the ones taken near Manzanillo. 
The deer here have very small antlers in proportion to the body 
judging from the 2 bucks I have and the antlers I have seen. 
Last evening we took the first skunk of the trip. It is oalled 
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