82 June 14 From Toluca we drove to Quinta Mitzi Motor Courts in Tuxpan, Mich. After climbing several miles through tall, straight pines we hit lengua de Vaca where firs are common. On the western slope of the mt. the land is cleared almost up to lengua de Vaca. Stayed night at Quinta Mitzi. June 15 Drove on west to Patzcuaro, Michigan. (Noted that sign said "Puerto Carnica", so Sibley's spelling was correct and the "Carnissa de Mexico" book is wrong -- still the natives there say "Carnica" Before entering the Patzcuaro basin I hunted for 15 minutes in a stand of tuna cactus-leguminous a broad-leaved shrubs of short trees along the highway. From all appearances this is good habitat for brunneicapillus -- at least the growth form is very similar to places where that species occurs farther north. It is the same formation that occurs near the lake south of Japuate and which we hunted several days ago. Again I found the chat common but no cactus arons. It seems re-markable that the chat should be present here and even more strange that its call is so much like that of C. jocosus. There is some of this vegetation type in the Patzcuaro basin but much of it has been cleared. It is rather dry around the lake itself -- more so than I had expected -- the oaks do not extend down to the water as I had imagined. Yulio