R.K. Selander, 1953 25 Santa Rita, 3000 ft., Chiapas Mexico Oct. 10 Many single native huts are located here and there in the hills. Trails lead from settlement to settlement, but trails into the remaining forest patches are very few. I judge that about 1/3-1/2 of the land is now planted, or was planted recently, to corn. Milpas are everywhere, even on the steepest slopes. Old corn-fields are now grown to thick grass or herbs. Bananas are grown in patches along the streams. Coffeetrees are common along the streams, a few orange trees here and there near corn- fields. Noted a few piña plants - but rare. I have never seen such rough country so extensively farmed. The original vegetation appears to have been a thick evergreen forest. Patches of it remain, especially on hill tops and on some slopes. Fig trees, mangos are common trees. A few oaks on some hill tops. Also much shrubby, deciduous vegetation on slopes with grass. - a complex mixture of vegetation types - some deciduous, some evergreen. I believe the region was originally evergreen for the most part. Hunting is very difficult because of the thick understory of shrubby vegetation everywhere in the forests and because of the steepness of the hills. Birds include chocaloca (sp.?), Volatinia jacarina