Field notes, v1518
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D. P. PEARSON 1952 39 After we had stopped and while it was raining & blowing, a girl came to the bus and offered for sale a stack of flet guinea pig skins. Feb 5 morning sunny. A throup in antr's palm trees. Swine pigs out in abundance shortly after sunrise, trees not until sun was well up. Abundant & bubbling. Also house cat, hawks, murres, gulls, black & white plover, and numerous toads or frogs. Also lizards. And also llamas, alpacas (some spitting) and sheep. Passing indian called this Pampa de Don Juan Capif. Hombre Paletta from Magaruy camp had lizard scales and fur that looked like guinea pig. After hunting trees & g. pigs, drove to our Ontave canyon camping place to skin. River very high & muddy. Then in late afternoon to Paiwanan. Sr Jorge says this is a very wet year. 1948 was especially wet and then for 3 days a man on horseback couldn't cross the Rio Huirique. This year for 20 days no one has crossed. He said the road to Horrida Facalver was impassable, some staff got down over two study their. Camped along the river several houses upstream on H do Paiumanii. Put out about 20 traps along a cliff in rich, along a limestone wall coral, and in an unused adobe buildings. This in middle of jungle but overcast in a no of Feb 6 Traps caught 2 Phyllotis darwini and and 4 of the big Kofard Phyllotis, one of these in the building. River still very high but much lower than yesterday. At 8:30 went around photographing on the hill between the bridge and the Ontave buildings. Parts of this hill, especially bases of cliffs, have very rich dual vegetation. Their tall bunch