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Carol Pearson
1569
Journal
23 July
Papa Lois Tree, Dept Lima, Peru
Cleared + was sunny most of day. RH put up a 30'
and x 18' mist nets in back yard + in course f day got
2 2. capensis ( 1 adult ♂, 1 ♀ ), 1 adult ♀ Sphinx magebleig,
1 Eugenia, 1 adult ♂ Pyroephalus rubens, 18 Anagilia argyilla.
Saw an ani in the street.
Went to 7 km SSE Chilea ( beach ) + set about 30 small
around 3 sides of a rectangle
Sherman's w barley at 15 paces. Through sparse Distichlis
with Salicornia bushes. Lots of stumps, fox, plover tracks.
Down on beach saw an injured Enicodus microfurcosus
hopping on sand at edge f waves. We chased him for a long
time, up on rocks + on beach, but the closest I got was touching him.
There were 2 others there too. Climbed the mountain there, a
basically rocky -x earthy one with a good view.
24 July
Caught 10 Mice
Went to Lima.
25 July
Sunrise was visible! Through broken clouds, but fog came in
for an ordinary day. At study plot did 3 Kilim can
small arth samples + weighed Till. mats to get weights
of green and dead parts :
Area No greenheads Wgt green Wgt dead
1. 530 cm² 3 446 g 525 g
2. 3,017 10 1,370 2,720
3. 322 1 quadruple 400 290
4. 9,800 11 2,355 3,920
5. 1,133 3 585 620
6. 17,027 19 3,790 10,665