Journal and species accounts, v1347
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Hanken, James 1978 Journal 17 July Hotel Primavera, Oaxaca, Est. Oaxaca, Mexico spent the morning walking part way up Cerro San Felipe along the trail supposedly used by E. H. Taylor when he collected the type specimens of T.pulmonaris and T.narisswalis The trail begins at ~5700ft. and we continued to just above 6300 ft which was in about 3 miles. The trail passes through chaparral-like vegetation of mostly scrub oak, running across several small ridges between which run small rivulets lined with more mesic vegetation of broad-leaved trees, understory, and litter. We raked through this litter several times along the path but found no Thorius. When we decided to turn around the vegetation was getting less scrubby and bit taller, but from what we could see the pine forest (where all of my Thorius in this region have so far found) did not begin until several hundred feet higher. Dave Wake and Jim Lynch journeyed to the town of Etla on the N side of Cerro San Felipe and collected only one Thorius, apparently pulmonaris, and some reptiles.