Field notes, v1518
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P. PEARSON 1952 51 Watched + collected trees April 8 Morning clear, afternoon scattered clouds, slight amount of hail + rain - some hailstones 15mm. diameter. Evening clear, mostly clear. Watched + collected trees, but mostly disssected those collected. 6:00 a.m. 22° 6:30 22° 82% 7:30 29 69 8:30 39 41 9:30 46 28 10:30 50 33 11:30 54 26 12:30 60 24 2:00 .60° 23% (scattered clouds) 3:00 25 4:00 40 (sprinkle) 5:00 51 58>hail 6:30 46 71 7:00 45 45 April 9 Morning clear, temp 6:15 was 18°, noon 50°, 2 p.m. 61°. afternoon scattered clouds, no precipitation. More tree studies and some photos. Indian meteor brought in some ground- up toasted ? grain which he called "kenyane," which grows der on 1-foot truncked plants that are now turning red and being harvested. He also said that ocia is grown only near Juli + Porsata. Yesterday's traps (30 m.s.) set around border of the 90-yl quadrat caught one phi. Boliviana overnight and one young stenomya + a lizard during the day. April 10 Temp 6 a.m. 23°. Morning clear, scattered clouds in p.m. Tweled till 11:30 then left towards Pijocorra. Miserable road. Camped near cresta SW of Pijocona. Country passed there mostly grass, little cota. Some nice rocky-cavey canyons. Passed some lush tree-clopping near Htrocelemi, 13,100 ft., but could see no trees. Probably operiana or leucodera, not peruvana Trap-caught 1 Chloromys and 1 Hypogeomys opson. = Galeomysga