An Annotated Check List of the Mammals of Michoacán, MéxicoHall, E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond)
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An Annotated Check List of the Mammals of Michoacán, México
Hall, E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond)
Mammals -- Mexico -- Michoacán de Ocampo
From March 16 to 23 we collected in the territory 1 to 6 miles south
of Tacámbaro, making our headquarters in the Europa Hotel, in the
town. The steep main street of Tacámbaro with native pines at the
upper end descends to plantings of bananas and sugar cane at the lower
end. Our collecting all was done below (south of) the town in the
semitropical country and none at all was done above (north of) the
town.
From March 24 to 27 (three night's trapping) we collected in the
vicinity of Zamora, making our headquarters in rooms diagonally across
the street intersection from the Hotel Fenix.
The resulting specimens, approximately 650 in number, were deposited
in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoölogy at the University of California at
Berkeley.
A noteworthy coincidence is that on the very day, February 26, on
which we crossed the international border into México at Laredo, the
beginning of the new volcano, Paricutín, was announced in the daily
press. Our collecting of mammals in Michoacán was nearly all done in
sight of the towering white plume of this rapidly heightening volcanic
cone and frequently our traps were thickly dusted with its wind-borne
ash. Our eagerness at that time to have stations established for
observing the effects on vertebrates of the deposition of ash, was
gratified in that Dr. Robert T. Hatt independently had the same idea
and such observations at appropriate places and times were begun by
him and staff members of the Museum of Zoölogy of the University of
Michigan. One of us, Villa, was privileged to share in these
observations in the spring of 1947.
This continuing interest in the mammals of Michoacán has made it seem,
to us, the more desirable to place on record our findings as to kinds
and occurrence of species. In doing this we have examined the
collections made previously on Cerro Tancítaro and vicinity by the
field party led by Mr. Harry Hoogstraal from the University of
Illinois and the Chicago Natural History Museum. The specimens of
mammals collected by this field party are in the Chicago Natural
History Museum and we are obliged to Mr. Karl P. Schmidt, Mr. Colin C.
Sanborn and the late Dr. Wilfred H. Osgood for the privilege of
studying this material.
Drs. William H. Burt and Emmet T. Hooper, of the Museum of Zoölogy of
the University of Michigan, lent to us for examination five specimens
of bats, of as many species, which they had taken in Michoacán. Drs.
Remington Kellogg and Henry W. Setzer have provided us with data on
specimens of deer and peccary from Michoacán which are in the United
States National Museum. Specimens in the Institute of Biology of the
University of México have been used. Financial provision by the Kansas
University Endowment Association has enabled us to obtain specimens
needed for comparison from other parts of México.
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