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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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[[image]] drawing of outline of a house [[/image]]