1892 
Armenia 
(Colima) 
March 4 
Vioinity 
of 
Colima 
(Colima) 
March 5 
bakers into small loaves or into ooffeo cakes. The coffee made here 
even by the poorest people is remarkably fragrant. It Is a luxury 
here which the poor do not canmonly enjoy, being worth 25 cants a 
pound in current coin,- 18^ U.S, 
Took the train today and moved camp up to Colima, stopping at 
the "Balcon Rancho" about 5 miles west of town by the R.R, track. 
The place is occupied and owned by Mr, A, Morrill, an American bora 
near Manchester, N, H,, but who has lived many years here and in 
Colima where he has a drug store 
sharp 
shower of rain that continued for a couple of hours. Every day fear 
several days past, the sky has become obscured and every indication 
of rain given. The ride across the cactus-strewn llano is interest- 
ing from the number of species of cacti strewn over It in ©very 
direction. The open ground is covered with a thin sod of grass 
which the soil Is too sandy to make very heavy. 
I went into Colima for mail in the evening, but got nothing but 
a mainspring for my gun. This is considerable, however, as one barrel 
has been useless for a month or over owing to a broken spring. 
Birds seen at Balcon Rancho, near Colima, Mexico. 
Circus hudsonius - a few 
Faleo sparrerius - eomon 
Jm 
Kelminthophlla ceiata • common 
Dendrciea asstiva m common 
Melospiza lineolni • abundant 
Pipilo chlorurus - common 
Guiraca ooe ruiea - common 
Zenaidura macroura - abundant 
Mockingbird - common 
Pyrocephalus rubinue - common 
(cf* notes on following page) 
