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Enterolobium
Ciruela
Bullthorn
Opuntia (long slender-leaved)
Tepehuaje.
Termite nests are abundant.
Calocitta   A bird was seen sitting on a frail nest made of small sticks in the top of a wild fig tree. The bird squawked at us from the nest and when we stopped to watch her, then rose and flew off.

May 4. Remained at Dos Arroyos.
Phaethornis mexicianus. We remained here today to try to secure topotypes of this bird but none were seen.

The country in this vicinity is of low hills of decomposed granite.

May 5 Coquilla. Guerrero.
We left Dos Arroyos at 7:15 am. and about 10 arrived at Alto del Camarron where we left the main road to [?] and turned off to the eastward and stopped at the small town of Coquilla after travelling about 16 miles.

Sterna antillarum  Several were seen along the Papagallo river.

Melanerpes elegans.
Calocitta
Arremonops
Tyrannus
Quiscalus macrourus
Columbigalliva passerina
Heleodytes
Volatinia splendeus.
Calocitta  Nest was found in a small fork near the top a tree standing along the Papagallo river. Nest was of small sticks loosely gathered together. Tree was the slender-leaved species growing so abundantly along streams. Eggs were seven in number.

Ardea egretta
Big Malva tree with five-lobed pods.
Cereus (tepamo)
Enterolobium
Bullthorn
West coast tree
Ciruela
Guasinna
Acapulco tree
Nanche
Jacaratia
Pithecolobium [[Pithecellobium]] dulce