Field notes, v1518
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P. PEARSON 1950 June 23 along stream baited with fish. No rain during night. Morning cloudy, clearing about noon to scattered clouds- Temp. at 1 p.m. 32°, humidity 30±. Nothing in traps. Hunting in the morning shot 2 rabbits for the pot. Owing to the cotton shortage and to how poorly the other two turned out stuffed with grass & paper I decided not to stuff them. Afternoon sunny, picked up traps and put them along stone wall running across savannah, baited with ripe plantain. June 24 Nothing in traps, although several spring (without hair) are moral. No rain during night. Morning overcast clearing about noon. Temp. 32° at noon. Afternoon sunny. Still no word from Savage, Heros, or Smith. Sent the camp boy to Tella for more grub. Says it is Saturday. Went back to Hacienda San Diego after dark and set 11 mouse traps in the kitchen and stove rooms. Shot 2 more Molossids in the cover of the house, and a late-pregnant rabbit. June 25. The 11 traps in the house had 8 house mice. Went back to the little cave in the dry wash near the boerenda and shot 3 def- mursed bats 3050-3052. Was skinning these when the truck finally came. Packed up and left about noon for Savage's camp along the Fajars Creek 7½ km. SE of Villanueva A review of the Camps Cascarron, Hacienda San Diego, 17½ km. SE Villanueva: Camp was near the middle of a mesa a couple of miles square, transected by Arubado Cascarron, Arubolo Aceto, and others. To the east