1692 
Vie*of 
Colima 
(Colima) 
Mar* 15 
to 
Mar. 16 
Mar. 17 
to 
Mar. 25 
Birds noted {Sarah 15th to March 16th. 
Barn Otrl - 2 
Spotted Sandpiper - 1 
Chondestes graramaca - abundant 
Zonotrichla leucophrys - 1 
Asturina plagiata - common 
Small kingfisher 
(of. notes on pages 27 and 28 ) 
Hacienda Magdalena. 18 miles west of Colima. Mexico. 
Armed with a letter from the proprietor of this place to his 
foreman (Senor Gutierrez to Senor Gonzales), I came out here today. 
This is a cattle and sugar Hacienda located about 18 miles in a 
westerly direction from Colima. 
We crossed the bed of the Armaria River in a diagonal course 
and were at least an hour winding about among and over the rock 
strewn washes and channels of this stream that has a bed of wash 
over two miles across at this point. We found the hacienda to be a 
large building enclosing a square with a well and the usual surround¬ 
ings of an inner courtyard. 
The building has its windows heavily barred with iron outside and 
heavy wooden shutters within. The walls of the building are 2 feet 
thick and the place has the appearance of having been built in times 
when the houses of the wealthy classes were forts. 
About the plaza fronting the hacienda are scattered the houses 
or wattled huts of the laborers. 
The administrador received us hospitably and we were soon in¬ 
stalled in a large room which was swept and made ready for us. 
Ma rch 18th . Taking a guide this morning, I rode about 4 miles 
to a cave In a large vein of marble on the hillside near the hacienda. 
This cave is about 50 feet deep inclining at an angle of 46° with a 
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