Field notes, v1409
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Koford Journal 24 August September 1967 Trigo, Dpto. Amazonas, Peru. Drove on a short distance to patch of trees and shrubs on a + papaya (Km. 288) clear stream near a cocoa ranch, at place called Trigo. Fair bird hunting. Set up bat nets. Saw propodolas, green jayas, blue tanagers, big black & white woodpeckers. A local man said deer (Hippocamelus) in grassland up a trail to 5,- he had an antler. Some coffee plantings in tributary valley. [illegible] came up canyon from main 6500 ft. river. This is cut over rain cloud forest zone. To Pamacobas August 25 September 1967. Drove up canyon. River rushing white in the rocky gorge. We saw one [illegible] perched on rock in rushing stream. From camp, 11 km. to a bridge, and a few km. to control station at Ayguas. Then same store where road turned E. toward Pamacobas. Road ascended through increasing patches of cloud forest. About 33 km. from the store reached town and lake of Pamacobas, about 6500 ft. elev. Little development of roads or docks on lake, which was perhaps 2 miles across & fringed with tule. A clean lake, bordered with rolling hills bearing farms and patches of forest. We stopped at town and drove on, on good road, about 6000 ft. for several miles to flat where there had been a seculill, as evidenced by pile lumber scraps, concrete foundation. This was area of active logging, so patches of logged land and many wide bulldozed jungle trails. Wet cloud forest. We set up bird & bat nets, hunted birds. 26-28 August 1967. Collected birds, bats, Set few traps. On forest trails heard tinamous, chachalacas. Saw no monkeys or deer other mammals (drive net-bat cage), the hamilton shot a coati