1892 
Vic.of 
Colima 
(Colima) 
Mar, 6 
to 
Mar. 14 
Baloon Rancho, near Colima, Mexico. 
Have remained here at work during the past 8 days and have seoured 
a nice lot of mammals. A very long, slender-bodied Urooyon and a 
large, heavy-bodied, chestnut-brown Thomomys, besides a species of 
Perognathus. a Hesperosnys. Sjgaodon. and two species of mice I 
cannot place. 
I have also secured 10 specimens of the nine-banded Armadillo, 
and two species of skunks,- one, the badger-skunk with long claws on 
fore feet and short-haired tailj and the other like ordinary Mephitis 
except for having a narrow white stripe from side of head back along 
flank nearly to tail below a white area along the dorsum. On the 
opposite page (of. page 24) is a list of northern birds seen here 
during the past week. All were apparently migrating. The dove here 
with white wing bars is nesting and about ready to hatch, as one set 
of eggs showed very plainly. 
Birds are excessively abundant here now, probably owing in great 
part to the fact that the northward migration is at hand. 
It seems rather odd in our present situation, geographically 
speaking, to see regular American oom-bread and pumpkin pie come 
to the table, and today (Mar. 14) we had strawberries and cream. 
The berries are grown in the colder climate on side of the mountains 
20 miles or so from here and brought down on pack mule. 
Before Colima attained the luxury of an ice machine, snow was 
brought some 28 or SO miles from the top of the Sierra Nevada on 
pack animals that started so to journey across the plain at night. 
The Thomomys taken here is dark chestnut-brown and is most caramon 
in a field where there is quite a cocoanut grove. The Armadillos are 
very cm®ion all over the upper end of the llano and especially about 
Colima. They live in burrows in banks and sides of arroyos,- or on 
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