An Annotated Check List of the Mammals
of Michoacán, México
University of Kansas Publications
Museum of Natural History
Volume 1, No. 22, pp. 431-472, 2 plates, 1 figure in text
December 27, 1949
University of Kansas
LAWRENCE
1949
University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History
Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, A. Byron Leonard,
Edward H. Taylor, Robert W. Wilson
Volume 1, No. 22, pp. 431-472, 2 plates, 1 figure in text
December 27, 1949
University of KansasLawrence, Kansas
PRINTED BY
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1949
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An Annotated Check List of the Mammals
of Michoacán, México
By
E. RAYMOND HALL and BERNARDO VILLA R.
INTRODUCTION
When General Lázaro Cardenas was President of the Republic of México,encouragement was given by his administration to linguistic groups ofnative American peoples to record in printed form, eventually in theirnative languages, accounts of their cultural accomplishments andaccounts of the natural resources of the regions concerned. For theTarascan "Empire" centering in the state of Michoacán, a committee ofMexicans and citizens of the United States of America was formed toforward these aims. Under the leadership of ethnologists on thecommittee, especially Professor Daniel Rubin F. de la Borbolla andProfessor Ralph L. Beals, invitations to coöperate in the studies wereextended to biologists. One of us (Hall) was invited to investigatethe fauna of native wild mammals. In 1943, assisted by a fellowshipwhich Hall at that time held from the John Simon Guggenheim MemorialFoundation, and with support from Miss Annie M. Alexander, through theUniversity of California Museum of Vertebrate Zoölogy, most ofMarch—March 3 to March 29, 1943—was spent in the state of Michoacán.
Bernardo Villa R. of the Instituto de Biología de la Universidadde México was a member of the party from March 23 to 27. Previously,March 4 to 22, Roberto Alcántar from the Universidad deMichoacán, in Morelia, participated in the field work. Mr. J. R.Alcorn was active in the collecting from the beginning until heentrained for the United States on March 24. The remainder ofthe field party was made up of E. Raymond Hall, his wife Mary F.Hall, and their three sons, William Joel, Hubert H., and BenjaminD. Hall.
From March 4 to 15 we collected at, and in the vicinity of, Pátzcuaro.We were housed in two cottages kindly made available bySr. Efrain Buenrostro, in Campo Turista Janitzio, 200 meters northwestof the railroad station in Colonia Revolución. The shore ofLake Pátzcuaro, the cultivated fields surrounded by stone fences,and the oak and pine forests roundabout provided varied habitats.
From March 16 to 23 we collected in the territory 1 to 6 miles[436]south of Tacámbaro, making our headquarters in the Europa Hotel,in the town. The steep main street of Tacámbaro with native pinesat the upper end descends to planti