R. K. Selander, 1954 34 May 10 Vicinity of Zucar de Matamoros to Veracruz Moved camp today from near Zucar de Matamoros, stopping in Puebla to buy .410 shells (300 pesos), can g powder (35 pesos), 200 primers (30 pesos). Near Tehuacan we heard Campylorhynchus where we stopped for lunch a few miles from the center of the city near the place where the road branches off from the highway heading into town. There are some patches of desert vegetation - including gyucea trees and tuna cactus near Tehuacan but most of the area is in cultivation. We then drove thru La Puerta (where we collected C. megalopterus in 1952) and down the Acultzingo grade into Veracruz. The moist pine - oak (mostly oak) forest of the type at La Puerta occurs just on the crest of the mountain before it drops abruptly off westward. Below the crest there is a dry, scrubby vegetation on the steep slopes so I doubt that megalopterus and zonotus come in contact in this region. There are several hundred feet of this dry scrub between the La Puerta vegetation and any trees which by any chance could be zonotus habitat. We continued on down the mountain thru Orizaba and made camp in the Barranca de Metlao, 3250 ft, 3 Km. N Fortin. In this canyon the Moretama Brewery was a power plant managed by Sr. Daniel Rabago (Telefono 5-04, Barranca de Metlao, Sanidero). Sr. Rabago speaks good English and gave us permission to make camp in a picnic ground just down stream