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APRIL 16, 1949. SIERRA DE ALTLAN.

PACKED UP AND LEFT CAMP TODAY. THE MULE
DRIVERS WERE SLOW GETTING UP THE MOUNTAIN AND
SLOWER GETTING PACKED, SO WE FINALLY LEFT AT
12:30. I SHOT A SCELOPORUS ON THE WAY DOWN AT
ABOUT 7500 FT, AND ONE OF THE INDIAN MULE DRIVERS
PICKED UP AN ANOLIS AT ABOUT 4600 FT.

TO GET TO OUR LOCALITY, ONE GOES FROM
CHANTE THRU LA CEDRA AND TECOPATLAN TO A
GROUP OF RANCHES CALLED MANANTLAN. WE WERE IN
THE MOUNTAINS TO THE EAST OF MANANTLAN. THERE
ARE A NUMBER OF SPRINGS IN THE NW CORNER OF THE
VALLEY IN WHICH MANANTLAN IS LOCATED, AND THE
TRAIL UP THE MT. PASSES THRU THIS AREA. OUR CAMP,
AT 7600 FT., WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST OF MANANTLAN.

THE INDIANS IN THE PACK TRAIN KNOW WHAT
THE SALAMANDERS WERE, CALLING THEM AXOLOTLS. THEY
TOLD ME THAT THE STREAM FROM WHICH I TOOK THEM IS
THE ONLY ONE IN THIS ENTIRE REGION, THAT THEY HAD
NEVER SEEN THEM ELSEWHERE. THE STREAM FLOWS
INTO THE RIIO ARMERIA, WHICH IS PACIFIC DRAINAGE
DIRECTLY. THUS IT COULD SEEM THAT THIS IS A TOTALLY
ISOLATED, ENDEMIC POPULATION.

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APRIL 17, 1949, CONT.

MUSEUM AT GUADALAJARA. I TOOK NOTES ON IT AND
PRESERVED IT PROPERLY FOR THEM. MAC GOT SOME COLORED
PICTURES OF IT FOR ME.

WE DROVE TO GUADALAJARA THIS P.M.

APRIL 18, 1949, GUADALAJANA.
SPENT DAY GRUBBING THRU BOOKSTORES. FOUND
ONE HORRIBLE OLD THING I BOUGHT FOR ITS SHORT PIECE
ON THE RELATIONS OF MAN AND SNAKES.

APRIL 19, 1949 - GUADALAJANA.
HELMUT AND I WENT OUT TO A BARRANCA WHICH
IS LOCALLY CALLED "BARRANCA IBARRA", WHICH IS THE
SAME NAME AS BAILEY'S TYPE LOCALITY OF CTENOSAURA
PARKER, WHETHER ITS THE SAME LOCALITY OR NOT. WE ENDED
UP ON TOP OF THE CANYON, HOWEVER, SO WE HAD TO WALK DOWN
THE OLD POST ROAD TO AGUASCALIENTES. THE DISTANCE, HOWEVER
DEFEATED US, SO WE HAD TO TURN BACK. PEOPLE TOLD US THAT
THERE ARE LARGE LIZARDS IN THE BOTTOM OF THE CANYON, AND
WE PLAN TO DRIVE THERE NEXT TRIP IN. A ROAD RUNS TO
THE POWERHOUSE ON THE DAM WHICH WE COULD SEE FAR BELOW,
AND WE WILL COME BACK ON THAT.

I GOT A SMALL ANOLIS ON THE TOP OF THE HILL. I
ALSO SAW CNEMIDOPHORUS, WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN TOPOTYPES,
BUT I DIDN'T GET ANY OF THEM.

APRIL 20, 1949 - GUADALAJARA AND AMECA.
DROVE TO AMECA IN THE P.M., AFTER WAITING ALL
DAY TO GET STARTED. THE HGHWY TO TEQUILA IS PAVED, AND
WE FOLLOWED IT FOR ABOUT 20 MILES, TURNING OFF ON AN