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Jasomys spinus
glass and turf. They make fewer dirt piles, smaller piles, more holes looks like feeding holes. The holes are smaller also; most I can barely get my hand in. There is considerable surface feeding on grass, leaves, & thorn bush. They lay off whole branches mostly. When caught in a trap and pulled out of a hole, they start.
Upon the divide (14,550 ft) between Ancuarcana and Capazo (where we shot a Levisine-like spinicus), is gravel - Festuca - tola country more typically spinicus country and where we took 2 spinicus.
Feb. 3 Panpa Capazo. Under the cold rainy weather conditions the trees seem to be more active in the late afternoon or evening. By 10 a.m. had seen only 1 fresh digging and no trees. Traps in afternoon yesterday caught 4 pieces of skin, and overnight 2 trees (one a baby). Both seem to be good spinicus, the terrain Festuca - tola (rigidum). This is only a mile or 2 from the former Panpa where the more mature specimens came from.
A barometer or 2 up the road we came at 10:30 o'clock upon a soccer field cleared out of the tola, dominated by Pycnoplyllum and the 2" stiff grass. It was sunny and trees were striking bed up. Shot 3 (one immature), missed 2, have 5 or more per acre. Certainly denser here than in the uncollected tola surrounding the field.