1892 
Vic.of 
Colima 
(Colima) 
Mar* 6 
to 
Mar. 14 
Mar. 15 
to 
Mar. 16 
already in shadow of earning night changed through smoky blue to soft 
purplish shades about the tops of the mountains where the sun still 
lingered and, ever rising in changing fora, the cap of vapor on 
barren cone. Prom Colima plain the country sweeps up rapidly in series 
of abrupt but rounded contours broken by deep barrancas and shaded 
deep, dark green by a heavy growth of pines and oaks until the base 
of the bare gray cone is reached. This occupies 4,000 or 5,000 feet 
of top of mountain. 
Back beyond this fire cone is the still higher snowy peak up 
which timber seems to climb almost to the summit. 
Morril Rancho, near Colima, Mex&oo. 
Shot 2 fine species of Ifyctinomus tonight (16th). One was pale 
cinnamon and the other nearly black-brown. They were taken while 
circling over the cattle corral. 
On the afternoon of the 16th, I rode about 0 miles to examine 
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some small bat caves on the baric of Colima River. Found a few bats 
belonging to the two species found at Manzanillo, viz. Saooopteryx 
and the leaf-nosed bat. Killed a few with sticks. Pound two Bern 
Owls in one of the eaves, and saw the familiar form of a spotted 
sandpiper flitting along the rocky channel of the stream. 
In the afternoon of the 16th, I took ray boxes of specimens into 
Colima to ship them. The man started ahead of me in the wagon, and 
when I rode into the outskirts of town I found him stopped at the 
city*® limit by a custom officer who asked for the permit or order 
allowing them to be passed into the city. 
This was the first I had heard of the necessity for such a 
document, and as a consequence - it being late - I had to leave 
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