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Paul DeBenedictis
1964
Sam 41
memories and recollections, Mexican trip
(Dec 19 eventually thrown away. We stopped at the spot south of Espinol to get a [illegible]. Ted has already got a Trimorphodon in a rock crevice near the surface, and Rich got a striped Anolis. Brian saw a boa constrictor. There is a bridge near the outcropping, and some water near the bridge. I got the anemone as it flew along the road. The rest of the butterflies were at the edge of the scrub. The "great zat" (I called it a "great zat butterfly" for the rest of the trip) is a large bach species with a crimson border on the hind wing, ?a Papilio. I saw an Adelpha fessona here. Gene's Anolis was crawling in the bushes, the only one we saw. I heard a few?Cnemidophorus. The hair streak I got was in the bushes in a rocky area in the mountainous thorn forest. The butterflies I got at Mazatlan were in the grass at the side of the road. Larry Burr shot a ladder-backed wood pecker. We picked up a magpie-jay somewhere along the line (I think - maybe tomorrow). This night I decided you must stay with your vehicle for two reasons. First the truck had a wild time in Mazatlan chasing geckos. Secondly I was stuck with no sleeping gear for about 1 1/2 hours, and it was not too warm. Driving to the campsite with John Ralph we saw 2 D.J.R and 203 live gumadilbos, and I thought I saw a gray fox on the side