Field notes, v1409
Page 663
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C. Koford Journal 29 June 1970. Hda. Galacala, Dpto. Peru. Spent most of day preparing specimens and getting ready to leave. Many Cavia trails and droppings in meadow and near rock walls around Cerros. Buteos tame in garden trees, & presumably nest there. To nr Llave, Dpto. Puno 30 June 1970. Departed 0630 and drove to Juliaca. Then Puno, where visited Univ. Nacional Tecnica del Altiplano. Several biol- ogists there. Julis Bustinga was working on "canotipia" of domoids and was especially helpful. Excellent supply of lab- equipment and chemicals. Borrowed a hand centrifuge. About 1430, departed Puno for Ilave. Final shopping. Then took road toward Mazocuy. Dropped about 27 miles out, by an old bridge (their Izalca droppings alongside the rock walls). Cold night. This in ichne grassland near Rio Huergue. 1 July 1970. 20° F. Last night. Drove on S. Beautiful rocks formation. Few fences, people, houses. Clear water in river. Some food necessary. Many llamas and alpacas, at Mazocuy (2 hrs beyond), took road to Santa Rosa. A good road in construction by military, up valley with small ice- crustled clean stream to edge of large pampa, about 11 miles beyond Santa Rosa. Saw a group of 4 wild pecunius her. Many alpacas on the pampa. We drove on about 2 miles to rocky rocky hills (a small cemetery too), where Ctenomys opossum abundant in loose sandy ground and vesicariae in rocks. Campsite here, about 2 miles short of closest approach to Lake Loricato. On near shore of lake, several groups of 10-20 flamingos, as well as Peruvian and Crested Ducks, and geese. Near camp put 8 steel trap (no. 0) in fresh lunnare