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Calabaza. The seeds of squashes are toasted and eaten by the natives living along the shores of Lake Chapala. 

Guayaba. The common wild species grows very abundantly on the rocky slopes near Jacona.

Polioptila. A few were seen among the guayaba and Baccharis bushes on the rocky slopes near Jacona. 

Baccharis. Common along streams and on wet rocky slopes near Jacona. 

Jan 12. Remains at Zamora.
Today it rained almost all day. Early in the morning it stopped for a short time and I went out to Jacona to set traps in the vicinity. It began raining again and I was soon soaking wet, but managed to get mouse traps set on a hill about two miles to the northward, which has cliffs near its top which furnish abundant shelter to small mammals. 

Thryomanes.  Several were heard singing on a rocky hill near Jacona. 

Jan. 13. Remained at Zamora.
It rained all day and I did not go out at all. 
Jan. 14. Remained at Zamora.
Rain ceased about 4 A.M. In the afternoon I went out to hill near Jacona and found over a dozen mice in traps set day before yesterday.

Nelsonia.  A single specimen was caught in a mouse trap set at the base of a large rock in a thickit on the north slope of the hill, about two miles from Jacona.

Jan. 15. Remained at Zamora.

Putorius.  I shot a specimen which crossed a trail in front of me, while hunting along a hillside covered with Baccharis and Guayaba bushes, near Jacona
Jan. 16. Hda. La Guaracha. 
I went to La Guaracha, an hacienda about 35 miles west of Zamora, to try to buy pack and saddle animals. Arrived late in the afternoon and found the administrador absent. He was to return on the following day. 
Road led through valleys and over low, rolling hills and the country was of the same general character as at Zamora. the hacienda is situated near the cienega of Guaracha, at the eastern end of Lake Chapala. The edges of the marsh make fine grazing lands and considerable areas are covered with sugarcane which appears to thrive very well as there is little or no frost in the immediate 

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