Field notes, v1409
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c. Xoford 17 Journal 9 July 1970 To 3 mi. NNE Limbani, 9200 ft. Peru. 42 snap traps, mostly near mossy & ferny boulder mountain. This area almost solid brush - trailing bamboo, pithy reed grawth - no really solid wood. Temps Banig + dreizgly. Much horse, mule, & Indian traffic along road. 10 July 1970. Visited the tunnel. L.C. collected butterfly & crecets. Sunshine morning; foggy + dreizzly later. Set about 30 live traps & 40 snap traps, mostly in damp area near stream where moss, ferns, brush. Kenya- type slide or Phyllates coll. yesterday. 11 July 1970. About 35' mist at night. Sunny morning. Traps held (Orcheter) (snap), 3 snuggings of 2 spp., 4 skaden. Put up some. Erik shot a few birds for specimen. Dreizzly after- noon & night. Set about 35 live traps, 40 snap traps, many in mofentially wet + mossy places. 12 July 1970. Partly overcast morning; foggy afternoon. Traps held 5 skaden, 4 snuggage; net took last (catalog) even solo; streambed, & later a hummingbird. Erik shot a few birds including red blue tanagers (one of w. 6 mm. Tethi). Put up specimen. L.C. took walk down canyon to 8000', & back. The tunnel was about 8700 ft. We packed & drove up to Limbani, then up to 11500' and camped by road. L.C. shot a Diglasse, Gallavis, & Calidie in short order. .22 shot elk. We set about 15 snap traps, 30 live traps. Mostly near rock walls, boulders, brush, ferns. Damp area w. cultivated patches, cattle grazing; much Indian traffic. We put up one /8 bat & bird net. Dreizzly afternoon again No aura a capimugside heard evening.