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(4) Chalchicomula
Puebla. & Perote, Vera Cruz.
Reithrodontomys: Tolerably common along the hills in the grass at their bases.
Arvicola: We were somewhat surprised when I caught arvicolas in grassy places at the altitude of the town (8200 ft.) This makes the lowest altitude at which we have yet found them in Mex.
They were rather dark colored. 
Liomys: Tolerably common.
Lepus: Three species of the genus are found (1) the white sided jack. (2) a very large reddish wooly cottontail. & (3) a small gray one.
Mephitis: I picked up a skull.
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Chalchicomula (5)
Neotorna
Pico de Orizaba, Alt
Birds of Chalchicomula.
Otocoris: Common in the fields on the plain near town.
Pipilo maculatus? A pipilo perhaps this one was common in the bushy places along roadsides & even in the midst of town wherever there was cover.
Carpod. mex. fron: -Common.
Melospiza lincolni: Com.
Pipilo fuscus: Com.
Harpor. curv. Very common
on the hills along the edge of the plain where plenty of wild magueyes, cactus, & brush grows.
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