Carl Pearson 1969 * Except of the 8 traps they put around the house we got 1 Mus with a bumpy tail, which Fernando says is due to a flea. journal 27 June cont Quito, Ecuador Pomasqui We discovered we had set traps some in a very old corn field with a few scattered bushes and rocks, some brushgrass + yellow flowers; some along a somewhat rocky slope with small bushes + brushgrass; and some along a dry stream bed with rocky walls. All this area was quite dry, with dusty - gravelly soil. We caught nothing. Up the canyon there was somewhat lusher vegetation (good sized bushes), and quite a number of birds were calling. Those I saw or recognized were the eared dove (Zenaida auriculata), the ground dove they have here (rufous on wings), sparrow hawk. In the very old cornfield there was a small very plain gray - brown flycatcher (at least he sat on stubs + waited + then flew out after an insect) with a dark tail; not shaped like ordinary flycatchers (Tyrannus). The doves up the canyon were making what were similar to bandtail pigeon courtship flights, + there were quite a number of them (30?). There were a few mosquitoes here. Esteban then showed us the Rio Monjas, which there is at the bottom of a great steep canyon with almost perpendicular walls. We saw a bridge over the river, a stone arch one, and a small bridge over an old arroyo that the conquistadores bridged on the way down from Colombia, again Esteban.