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Dec 26. Ocotlan. 

Early this morning we anchored about six miles from Ocotlan and nearly in front of a small ranch called Las Tortugas. As our boat had no keel it was impossible to work against the wind so we took a small canoe and reached the Furness ranch about noon. Late in the afternoon Mr. Nelson and I returned to Ocotlan.

Dec. 27 Remained at Ocotlan. Entire day was spent in skinning and preparing specimens shot Dec. 24–26.

Dec. 28–31. Remained at Ocotlan. The four days were spent collecting in the vicinity of Ocotlan.

Phalacracorax Iris, dark grass green; eyelids dark brownish with 20 small regularly spaced, transverse blue spots; gular pouch, dirty flesh color; base of mandibles surrounding gape, dirty yellowish, finely specked with dirty whitish; bill, blackish horn color along top of upper mandible, shading downward into bluish horn color or lower part of upper mandible and all of lower, becoming palest on under side of lower mandible. Sides of lower mandible transversely marked with irregular spots of whitish horn color.

Canis. Said to occur on plains near Ocotlan.

Jan. 1, 1903. Las Tortugas, Jalisco.

Mr. Nelson went to Guadalajara this morning to buy pack and riding saddles and other outfit for our trip through Michoacan and Guerrero. He expects to be gone three days. I went with the photographer, Mr. Winfield Scott, to a small place called Las Tortugas that he owns on the lake shore about six miles from Ocotlan, to remain for three days collecting. The little place is a point forward by a sort of delta, where a deep arroyo or box cañon breaks down through the steep bluffs bordering the north shore of the lake. The climate is much milder, no frosts occur in the immediate vicinity of the lake and crops of sugarcane, bananas, corn, beans are raised. The sugarcane and bananas require irrigation, and the water is raised from the lake by "norias." The hills bordering the lake at this point rise abruptly and have cliffs and rocky ledges along their fronts.

Quiscalus macrourus, called "urraca" by the people at Ocotlan. 

Sturnella  Several were heard singing from marshy land along the Sula river early in the morning, when on the way by canoe to Mr. Scott's place.

Transcription Notes:
Leaving misspelling of Phalacrocorax as it appears that is intentionally an "a" rather than an "o" I believe "Sula river" should be "Zula river" per a map of Chapala Lake and surrounding area.