Field notes, v1516
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A K Pearson 1969 afternoon while the sun was out. It was about 20-30 pellets. We caught about 50 scorpion stingers and 86 pairs of fruit frogs. There were lots of little [illegible] visible so after supper I stayed home and separated out the fauna. Counts about 18 pairs of females - gecko size. We set traps in the late afternoon at a beach a little south of Chlca. The beach is pocked with crab burrows and covered with mouse tracks. The tracks are like little highways through the vegetation. Also caught 2 kinds of lizards and found 2 geckos curled up under cardboard (different pieces of cardboard). Set 17 traps along the road (Sherman live traps) baited with oatmeal. July 6, 1969 4k ENE Pucuvana Dept. Lima Peru Four Mus in my traps. Roy caught some Oryzomys but otherwise lots of Mus only. We drove up to the Quebrada (Cay de Mueros) to look for the box of large folding Shermons that was inadvertently left there and picked up a batch of tiny free pellets to change. Marketed in San Bartolo where we also had to change a tire. When we got back to the house we found a note saying the Davis family had been by with Manuel. Please call his girlfriend Isabel. We lit into our chores of the day and before long the Davis car drove up with everyone aboard. Sat