E. Heské 1980 Journal Playa Escondida to Catemaco, Veracruz, Mexico december is the financial owner (his girlfriend is the official one) who is trying to be helpful + friendly, but too much disturbance here to spend tomorrow karyotyping. will pull traps + leave in the morning. wrote a short stack of postcards + turned in ~ 2230. Catemaco to Cordoba, Veracruz, Mexico december Arose ~ 0630. Drove SE on Hwy 180 to check traps. I cached 1 Heteromys and 5 Peromyscus mexicanus. should have caught more, but many of my traps had been set off and/or overturned by some animal - notably 3 set along a large log, 2 along a rotten stump, + the last 3 after that = 8 traps sprung. Too bad. David caught 1 Heteromys desmarestianus, 2 P. mexicanus, and 1 Oryzomys (Duke unsure if cowesi or melanotis or?). Duke caught 1 Liomys (sp? = pictus?), 1 Sigmodon hispidus, 2 Oryzomys (sp?), and 11 P. mexicanus. Returned to hotel, ate breakfast, packed, + left. Elev. at above sites estimated to be ~100 m. Drove N on Hwy 180 to a point just south of Veracruz, then headed cordoba Cordoba Wen Hwy 150 to [illegible]. Arrived Catemaco. ~1500, found place to stay (Hotel BuenaVista, just outside town ~ 375 pesos), ate dinner + spent the evening karyotyping, taking tissues, preparing specimens. Many of the F's, both Heteromys + Peromyscus, have embryos. See D.S. Rogers' cataloge for data on specimens prepared. Turned in ~2200. Day was hot, sunny, humid = ~ 27°C.