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Koford
Journal
8500ft.
PERU.
12 July 1967
1 Km. N.
12 Km. E. Paria coto, Dpto. Ancash,
tail; see Hamilton spec.) displaying + chasing. Also one with 2 long white tail
feathers. Gonitichia common, & most often in net- they seem to avoid
sand & colred net in sunshine. We put up skine & departed about
1200 to descend toward Carma. Bathed in creek. Shopped in Carma and
camped mid-lun. to N. in barren rock + sand hills near coast.
13 July 1967. We drove on past Chocalte (many fishing boats; Juently
adobe barn; pelicans in food feeding on garbage) to Trujillo.
Dpto. La Libertad
stopped & changed oil, repaired tire. On to 5 km NE Pocosmayo and
camped on sandy flat near green area shrubs + mosquito. I set
20 traps along grass brush of thorn fence.
Dpto. La Libertad, Peru,
5 Km/NE of Paracayao, Peru
14 July 1967. At 2 a.m. I ran trap line & found: Allobates bolivianus
and one g. muis (discarded). Shot Caperimulguies on nest w.
eggs. Saw over birds, vermilion flycatcher, black vulture, costen
dep., Lambayeque, Peru
many others. Drove on to Chiclayo. Shopping + repairs, about 25
(Capparis?)
pm. 5. Chilago, area of loose sand; field crowned with large thorn
(20 pots)
many
shrubs. Piles lose teardrop-like lizard tracks, but we found none at
noon- small hole went into sand. Dead Furnaria by road. / 2:30 p.m.
w.
drove to Lambayeque & turned off toward Morope for 18 km. Camped
in sandy area with prosopis + Capparis bushes. Many lizard
(Hesperomys gerbillus)
tracks. By 8 p.m., McCullum had a mouse & Honey a gekko. I set 30
snaps traps near bushes. Nothing by 11:30 p.m.
(H. gerbillus)
15 July 1967. My traps held 2 mice. Many mocking birds in Prosopis
tree. Drizzly light rain at times in night, + cumulus stratus clouds
morning. Collected for birds. Then down to Chiclayo for supplies +
nw Km. 815
meal, then on north and camped 1 km. N of Jayanca, Dpto. Lambayeque.
We set traps in cut & beaten brush and thorn fence near a sandy
wash. Many kinds of small birds present, and boys saw one or more