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C. Koford
12
Journal
1 July 1970
Lake Corisata, Ooto. Prov. Peru.
for toos - toos [caught one by 5 p.m., 2 more by dark]. On
hillslope we set about 40 live traps and 35 may haps
among red boulders, tola, cactus, festuca clumps - some
yucca, pyrophyllum, some sandy ground. Old mouse
tracks common. But cotton as well as bait in live traps. We
shot 2 viscacha in rocks & saw many others, and
many toobs. Sunset about 1730. Cold evening.
2 July 1970. Min. Temp. 9° F. Sunrise 0615. Saw a Stumps
half out of burrow, digging, at 0745. Also an Ak. Phyllostetii
sitting
ludovici standing up by his burrow near toos burrows
on flat sandy ground. Took 2 more Stumps by 0930,
with most traps taken in. Our live traps held 0 - snaps
(toxicine?)
took 2 P. danvisi, 1 A. jelskii, 1 Ak. ludovician. Again,
live traps seem unproductive in cold. / Cold - milk frozen in
tent, & coffee, water, eggs. Toos survived, wrapped in
lunlop sacks (but maisy struggle in wire cages all night).
Overcast day. We left traps out until midday, but no mice.
Departed and drove back to Santo Rosa, Morocuy, and 5 mi. N. where we
camped near rough red boulders and cliffs. Set about 20 snap traps near
rocks, on mod. slopes w. scattered tola, bunchgrass.
3 July 1970. Cold night; min. 12° F. Traps took: Akodon bolipreli: (spec)
and 6 P. danvisi (disarded). [Drove w N., intending to cut over to Juli, thence
5. to mrs. Nuvarollari, but missed cutoff. So went via llave, then Juli.
Thence, instead of direct to N., skirted shoreline to Pometa. Some shore
small boulders, other muddy. Huge snowy rats w. E. (Pellimani ?).
Cattle and sheep working in a red-filled lobe, feeding on water
plants. We saw a gallinule w. bright red frontal shield. Numbers