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An Annotated Check List of the Mammals of MichoacAin, MA(C)xico

E. RAYMOND HALL and BERNARDO VILLA R.

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 KANSAS

Lawrence, Kansas

PRINTED BY

FERD VOILAND, JR., STATE PRINTER

TOPEKA, KANSAS

1949

22-6113

An Annotated Check List of the Mammals of MichoacAin, MA(C)xico

E. RAYMOND HALL and BERNARDO VILLA R.

INTRODUCTION

When General LAizaro Cardenas was President of the Republic of MA(C)xico, encouragement was given by his administration to linguistic groups of native American peoples to record in printed form, eventually in their native languages, accounts of their cultural accomplishments and accounts of the natural resources of the regions concerned. For the Tarascan "Empire" centering in the state of MichoacAin, a committee of Mexicans and citizens of the United States of America was formed to forward these aims. Under the leadership of ethnologists on the committee, especially Professor Daniel Rubin F. de la Borbolla and Professor Ralph L. Beals, invitations to coAśperate in the studies were extended to biologists. One of us (Hall) was invited to investigate the fauna of native wild mammals. In 1943, assisted by a fellowship which Hall at that time held from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and with support from Miss Annie M. Alexander, through the University of California Museum of Vertebrate ZoAślogy, most of March--March 3 to March 29, 1943--was spent in the state of MichoacAin.

Bernardo Villa R. of the Instituto de BiologA-a de la Universidad de MA(C)xico was a member of the party from March 23 to 27. Previously, March 4 to 22, Roberto AlcAintar from the Universidad de MichoacAin, in Morelia, participated in the field work. Mr. J. R. Alcorn was active in the collecting from the beginning until he entrained for the United States on March 24. The remainder of the field party was made up of E. Raymond Hall, his wife Mary F. Hall, and their three sons, William Joel, Hubert H., and Benjamin D. Hall.

From March 4 to 15 we collected at, and in the vicinity of, PAitzcuaro. We were housed in two cottages kindly made available by Sr. Efrain Buenrostro, in Campo Turista Janitzio, 200 meters northwest of the railroad station in Colonia RevoluciA cubedn. The shore of Lake PAitzcuaro, 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 south of TacAimbaro, making our headquarters in the Europa Hotel, in the town. The steep main street of TacAimbaro 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.