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(84) Perote. from the last station passed & between here & there I saw three individuals of Spermophilus Mex. Between here & San Marcos I saw among other birds Sturnella magna mex. red winged blackbird & Polyforus. The red winged blk. bird & meadow-lark seem to favor the wet grassy plains altogether. I have seen them nowhere else. The "Cofre de Perote" did not show up much being covered with clouds it seems to be covered with a pretty dense growth of pine on its slopes. Perote. May 20. Have been Perote. (83) trapping in the nighborhood [[neighborhood]] with fair success. Mr Nelson left for Jalapa [[Xalapa]] to see the governor day before yesterday & has not yet returned. The peak of Perote shows up well from town and is shaped thus as seen from here [[image]] & really does look like a box as its name "Cofre de Perote" indicates, & is not more than a quarter of a mile to the base of the Mt. from town. The birds are about the same here as at Chalchicomula or Huamantla. Yesterday while up in the hills a short distance I discovered a cave
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