Field notes, v1516
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K. Pearson 1969 25 A couple of little bats flew over camp at dusk. July 21, 1969 10 to 5 yango, 8500 ft. Deep Fire Peru Try 7 snap traps held 3 Oryzomy-like mice. Two "long-tailed Anicors" in the large Sherman traps - one under a pile of rocks at the base of the hill, the other and Scotch broom about 10 ft. from the stream. All three of the Oryzomy-like mice were across the street from camp - under a large rock, along an old stone wall, & in a clump of Scotch broom. Spend the morning fixing up bird nets and skinning a cyto-taxi, the catch for last night. There is a curtain of Scotch-broom in Wilson all around our camp; a little pastured with grass, when cattle and sheep are grazed. Other shrubs are pepper-trees, lognet (?) trees, cactus about 8' tall (pifester), huge agaves, Tillandsia epiphytes drooping like Spanish moss from old trees. There was mint growing along the river, & a caƱa. Lots of insects around our light at night. It has been a real windy day. Climbed up the hill behind camp this afternoon, look, for lizards, etc. Saw a hummingbird & not much else except fascinati cliff-hanging plants. Two or three species of Tillandsia, little succulents, etc. Day 21 x OP + I set out traps about 1 miles up the road. Along a steep terraced slope with lots of holes. The stones on the stone walls are quite small, so I don't know what we'll catch there. I also put some sets in & around a kind of native tree covered with drooping Tillandsia.