Journal and species accounts, v1347
Page 437
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Hanken, James 1976 Journal Hotel Mayorga, Fortin de las Flores, Est. Veracruz, Mexico 25 July We stopped at two localities W of Maclin) (cont'd) the first a cleared hillside at 7900', with adjacent wet oak-pine-madrono forest. Here we collected 2 Pseudoeurycea belli, 8 Eumeces and 7 snakes by turning rocks in the clear clearing, and 3 Sceloporus in the forest. No Thorius were found. Closer to Maclin we stopped at 8540 ft. in wet pine-oak forest and took Thorius (apparently all the small species from Llano de las Flores) under rocks and logs and one was mystry Pseudoeurycea under leaves on a fallen log. We finished off the day in the rain on top of Cerro Pelon, getting ten Thorius there and 2 at 1 km N Cerro Pelon, the latter two of a different species. 22 July - Doug and I worked numerous localities from the vicinity of the top of Cerro Pelon to Vista Hermosa. We had better luck than Brad and I had this winter getting Thorius in greater numbers as well as Pseudoeurycea in several places (see catalogue). We also saw a coatimundi ~ 2 mi. N of the top of Cerro Pelon on the side of the road. No Pseudoeurycea or Thorius were taken from the cloud forest area. From Vista Hermosa we drove on to Tuxtepec to spend