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E.V. Miller
1940
20
General Account.
April 17 (cont.) Los Miradores, 1 mi. W Km. 619, 22 mi. N Linares,
Tamaulipas. Here I shot 2 kinds of flycatchers and a kind of black jay.
April 18 In my traps took 1 ? Onizymys sp.; 4 ?, 4? Peromyscus
leucopus. We left this place and its innumerable ticks to
drive on South. We stopped along the highway near Km 459,
9 mi. S Valles, San Luis Potosi. I set out 50 M. Specials
and 10 Schuyler no.1's for the night.
April 19 Took one? Peromyscus boylii, and shot a wren at camp.
The habitat here was Bullhorn Acacia, small Palms, and
thick high brush. My traps were set along a small
rocky gulch. Benson got many more mice by setting his
traps up the hillside. We drove on toward Mexico City,
stopping in the mountains a short distance off the main
highway near Km. 232 on the side road to Maguey Verde,
state of Hidalgo.
April 20 Our location for this morning is 7100+ ft. Maguey Verde,
8.5 mi. NE Zamapan, Hidalgo. I took one? Peromyscus
sp.. My traps were set in brush along the edge of an old
cornfield (50 M. Specials and 10 Schuyler no.1's). Delgadillo
took more mice along a fence lined with Maguey plants.
The habitat is small pine of 2 or more species, not pine
being one, oaks with a light underbrush of Baccharis sp.,
Maguey or Century Plant, and other brush. In the afternoon
I shot 2 Thryomanes bewicki, are "Red-backed" Junco, a
Seelopsomus sp., and an Empidonax sp.. Benson shot a
thrush - Hylocichla? sp. and an Aphelocoma sp. in addition.
Last night I shot 2 ? Cteacius fuscus (late).