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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.