Koford 1967 Journal Perú 15 July 1967. No. Jayanca, Dpto. Lambayeque, foler. A lot root under bridge nearby. About 2 a.m., they + I visited the bridge and took 5- golders from the concrete ceiling. This was Sunday Saturday. hig (?) 16 July 1967. We drove on toward Piura. Near Motupe I shot a magpie + jay + turacaw large + small parake. Otherwise most area dry thatgrass, mosquito brush, + sunstrokin'. About when enter tropical sand on foothills map, soil became sandy with widespread clumps. Then about 10 hrs. before Piura, sand became with occasional magnolia to 5' of road; to N., wide zapotc spread shrubs in card - cope, "mule ear," "gren balbalocacia," and mosquito. Perú We set traps. Saw many lizard trocha + fox trocha. No. Piura, Dpto. Piura, H. gerbillus 17 July 1967. My 35 traps held 2 pole mice (3069, 3061), both on 4' sand hill cov. cov with short "mule ear" shrub. Hamilton also caught one. I caught a Lazo - sitto + Caristinum in trap traps. Personally we are at No. station of Perú definitive declue dent. We drove on to Piura, a dirtier less developed town than Chiclayo. This is cotton, banana, + cultivated green region. Then we drove on toward Secchua, which lay at edge of desert and was small poor oddle town, apparently without public (only water tanker, done driven) to 558 water system. On for about 30 hrs. ^ and camped on rather hard desert with small clumps covered with "mule ear" shrub. I set 25 traps on these hills. To Bayovar, Dpto. Piura, Peru. (H. gerbillus) 18 July 1967. I caught one mouse. We drove on a few hrs. (30 ft. Piura) to head of Estuario de Virilota, where we saw hundreds of gulls, cormor- ante, shore birds, and a few dozen flamingos. Hamilton made bird lists about 1/2 hrs. toward sea was old turtle camp, with lower + pieces Chelonia shell green turtles, all perhaps years old. Several big de sea and taken by they. Ground covered with fox + skunk trocha in Telenova Salvinia and similar accumulate by water. Many Lazo + other crabs, + potato shells. Area seemed good for study. We drove on to Bayovar, about