Fig. 1. Ungrazed pasture with oaks on slope of El Estribo, 7,700 feet elevation, two miles west of the town of Pátzcuaro, Michoacán. Several species of rodents, Liomys, Sigmodon, and Peromyscus were taken abundantly in the grass in the immediate foreground. Photo March 16, 1943, by Mary F. Hall.
Fig. 2. Xerophitic vegetation, eleven miles west of Zamora, Michoacán. 5,750 feet elevation, where rodents were trapped. Photo March 26, 1943, by Mary F. Hall.
Canis latrans cagottis (Hamilton Smith)
Coyote; Spanish, Coyote; Tarascan, Jihuátz (Hewatz)
Lyciscus cagottis Hamilton Smith, Jardine's Naturalist's Library, Mamm., 9:164, 1839, type from Río Frío between city of México and Puebla.
Canis latrans cagottis, Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 45:224, November 26, 1932.
Range.—Probably most of state.
Remarks.—On March 27 or 28, 1943, in Morelia, at a gasoline filling station, one of us (Hall) saw a freshly killed coyote tied on the bumper of the automobile of a Medical Doctor. In response to inquiry about the animal the Doctor said that he killed it some 15 miles northeast of town.
Lynx rufus escuinapae Allen
Bobcat; Spanish, Gato del Monte; Tarascan, Misícpápu (misicpapu)