D.A. Good 1980 Journal Catemaco to Cordoba, Veracruz 29 December Up 0645. Picked up traps 0700 to 0800-caught Peromyscus mexicanus, Oryzomys and Heteromys/Liomyx. We then returned to the hotel, had breakfast and left Catemaco 1030. We then drove N to San Andrés Tuxtla where Duke made a long distance phone call to his wife and then on to just outside Veracruz where we picked up the highway W to Cordoba which we reached 1450 and got set up in a motel. Karyotype + shin all evening (after supper). While karyotyping Duke accidentally released a mouse in the motel room. In chasing it Duke + Ed scared out from under the bed a young Ecoloparus (DAG 324). Cordoba, Veracruz 30 December Spent the day in the motel taking tissues + shinning until 1500. Then spent the rest of the day doing little odds + ends. Cordoba to Ojo de Agua, Veracruz 31 December Up 0730. We left Cordoba 0845 and drove E along a series of dirt roads to the source of the Rio Atotonilco ("Ojo de Agua") which we reached 0940 (see journal D.S. Rogers for directions). I spent the day alternately walking around looking at birds and turning over rocks for salamanders and sitting in the car reading while Duke + Ed set out traps-Duke had his skulls out on the hood of the car drying and wanted someone to be around at all times. About 1300 Duke + I set out 2 mist nets along a small stream near our camp and I periodically thought after