1892 
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Anuria 
(Colima) 
March 4 
Zorri?.lc by the people here and is one of the badger-like animals 
having long alters m the front feet like a badger, and a long tail 
not more bushy than the tail of a fort if so much so. The tail and 
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a broad band from ears to tail along baok tire white,- rest of body 
black. The people tell me that these animals will climb trees 
after chickens roosting there. They have a rraiarkably long cartila¬ 
ginous snout projecting § of an inch beyond the teeth in front, with 
a soft joint at base and strong zausoles on the sides of the nose 
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attached to molar bones to move the* snout exactly like the muscles 
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on the sides of nose cf the Peccaries I obtained, and proportionally 
they are equally large in these skunks, so it would seem that the 
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latter mist use their nose to root with. 
The nasal passage on each side in front and just below the ex- 
tarn&l opening is opened out into a eoneh^iike expansion or chamber 
which is constricted at the nostril, 
Among the mice taken near the mouth of the Araeria Is one like a 
Perognathus without the large auditory bullae seen in that genus. 
Possums are extremely common here as many as 5 or 6 leaving their 
tracks along a single trail during the night. 
The "Tienda" where X am stopping fronts the plaza in Armoria and 
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all the life of the town passes before one here, I have sat by the 
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hour and watched the movement going on there with never failing in- 
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tareat. The people are early risers and at first sign of dawn the 
pat-pat-pat of the tortilla makers* hands comes from the adjacent 
houses. The loud crowing of the cocks is incessant for an hour and 
then they march abroad and spend the day in company with a host of 
pigs and a goodly supply of dogs in skirmishing about for food, mak¬ 
ing raids into the houses at frequent intervals as do also their four 
footed companions. Every morning just after daylight, the people send 
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