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P. PEARSON
1948
the overhanging banks. These joined after going
in and up for about a foot, then this tunnel went
up about 6" more and downstream about 6"
whereupon it opened into a chamber
the size of a large coffee cup. This chamber was
almost filled with a nest of green plusquam
thin pieces of bark. A tunnel led beyond
the nest & downstream downward.
no young or fresh scale in the nest, so it is not
impossible that it belonged to Zapena or Micotina.
Captures eat earthworms, grasshoppers, raw
liver, mouse carcasses (except forest skins), dead
fish, caddis pupae, aquatic larvae of insects (many
live in this stream), large flies (catch them on the wing),
some bugs, but in one trial they refused flatworms
which abound in this stream.