C.Koford 4 Journal 16 June 1970 Near Quito, Ecuador. Cryptotis mex animal, a shrew (4343). We took up all traps and returned down the mountain. (13 km.) & drove back to Lob at Amis, Cotocalla. / About 1:45 we left in jeep with Pancho Lora on the Carretera to Naranjo 22 km. To the Equator Monument, in a comparatively dry area. Then or 4 hrs. to area of boulders in brush near a corn field. On various slopes we set traps, 30 live, 11 snaps, all near rocks in attempt to get Phyllotis loggardi. Although they require dry sites, some bare ground). Then 2 km. S. of monument we turned W. to a dry arroyo where there were many potholed rocks and set 9 live and 1 snap traps there on bare ground near rocks. Vegetation sparse, but yucca stumps and short plants, Tillandsia on some rocks. Moderately used by goats. The first site had many dollar mides in shrubs. Tom Fritz, grad student of Univ. Kansas, accompanied us on the trips (studying Stenocercus & similar lizards). / Ascending 1 town hill the morning we saw black, white, & yellow finches (Lat. Nicolis?) along road banks, and flushed two Notiocephalus. / Returned to Quito. Visited w. Mr & Mrs Fritz, & Sr. & Sra. Ortiz - C. in evening. Then shinned 3 miles. 17 June 1970. Erik & I took jeep & drove to trip-line, arriving about 9 a.m. The thick low traps near boulders and brush, rather moist, held 14 mice - Oryzomys, Reithrodontomye. & 2 of these were in the 11 snap traps - more efficient! We saw sparrows hawks and a falcon (F. femalis?) over bushy hills. The smaller drier tropelines, SE of equator monument, held: Phyllotis loggardi in snap trap, and an Oryzomys. The former looked like short-tailed P. andinus, and habitat similar to dry parts of same (somewhat P. andinus like habitat). We took up all traps and reset them, Live 10 in area of catch of P. loggardi; 2 under boulders nearby, 24 in the next quebrada to N., where boulders of a harder rock and vegetation a little more prominent. We also set