K.Selander, 1953 29 Oct. 15 Santa Rita to Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, Mexico. No Jays heard this morning. Rather foggy here most of the morning. Broke camp around 8:00 A.M. and traveled by horse to San Fernando. About 1 miles N of San Fernando a flock of 4 Caloitta crossed the trail and I got one specimen - typical formosa. Paid Sr. Ruben Diaz 53 pesos for use of horse and hauling my gear up to Santa Rita. A taxi was waiting at San Fernando. Drove to Tuxtla --30-- pesos in - cluding trip to Museo zoologico to find Alvarez. Gave Bonifacio 10 pesos. Wired Pitelka and my wife. Had a long talk with Alvarez about the Caloitta problem. He said he cannot leave Tuxtla until November. I am again staying at the Hotel Rex. Wrote long letter to Pitelka. Oct. 66 Out hunting south of Tuxtla from 7:30 until 1:30, Climbed up the Arroyo Toma to the top of the hill south of Tuxtla. Found a dry, deciduous scrub forest there with very few birds in it. Turdus grayi, Empidonax difficilis and E. albigularis, Calbantes aura, Thyothorus pleurostictus, Icterus puastulater, graccatcher, and Caloitta formosa, several migrant warblers were only birds seen. Took several lizards & many meloid beetles near Tuxtla. Took 3 panoramic shots of Tuxtla Valley - I believe you can see Monte de la Plena in one of them. Very dry up on the mountain top where there is a rather extensive plateau. Expected Chordeiles minna