Field notes, v1518
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P. PEARSON 1950 24 with barana. Also 20 along a dry wash bordered with thorn scrub, these too baited with barana. Relates most of the old birds of 40 [54] with barana. Overcast all day. A few immeasurable sprinkles. Went jacklighting about 8:45 to the new trap line in thick woods. Three Meraxes in traps, two of them on limbs and one out top of stone wall. Saw no mammals. Coming across a stretch of rodlands on the way lost my bearings only a few hundred yards from camp and ended up on a totally strange road that I didn't know existed so near camp. Noon. Spent the night on the sandy-gravelly bottom of a gully and got my bearings at dawn - still only a few hundred yards from camp. July 13 Are badly eaten Oryzomy in the thick woods, nothing else. Took some photos of rodlands habitat where no mice live, and the sites that didn't have any remains (except 2 live traps in one). Picked up the Meraxes trophies. all Meraxes so far within 50 feet of water. Morning partly sunny and partly cloudy-bright. Went with Savage in afternoon to collect an Enterothere, then baited running traps (20 in dry wash and 40 [54] in rodlands and along edge). Shot one small Margatus flying at early dusk among trees (3:45) 5 km N Villavicencio, 1400 ft.; Huila, Colombia. July 14 Nothing in traps. Picked all up and packed to go to Ceballos. Smith found nest of yellow-legged Rockbird in Tybba with 2 pale blue eggs. Left about 1 p.m. and after stopover in Villavicencio went by car out to Ceballos where Motes, Cinetta, Fijaroa,