Field notes, v1336
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Journal Haber, M.S. 1978 6 km. (by road) S Tacámbaro, Michoacán, México. 28 March (cont) we plan to knapotype later today. We broke camp and drove back into Tacámbaro, where we photographed the neat, traditional spanish architecture surrounding the town square. We then drove north from Tacámbaro toward Pátzcuaro. We stopped at the meadow at the highest part of the mountain pass between these two cities and searched for signs of Zygogeomys (ie, their characteristic mounds). We set some traps in a large meadow, but we were fairly certain that the gophers were Pappogeomys, so we pulled the traps about 9:30, ½ hour after we had set them. (I had one set-off), We continued a bit further N on this road and turned off to the NW towards Cerro Burro, a steep [illegible] volcanic cone rising about 1500 ft. above the surrounding meadows. The road lead to a Microwave transmission station about 2/3 of the way up Cerro Burro - we saw no gopher signs on the Cero. 1100 we returned to Pátzcuaro. It is our feeling now that either 1) Goldman was wrong and Zygogeomys does not inhabit the mountain slopes to the SE of Pátzcuaro or 2) the Zygogeomys population