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P. PEARSON
1955
Panper is about (1,000), at 10,500 and lower there is lots of brush, sometimes dense enough to be called chaparral. Schinus is abundant, Scotch broom, and a large variety of zerophybe dust-covered shrubs.
And in the afternoon followed the Rio Montero downstream still yet and stopped for the night at 8500ft. Numbers of driving and 3 hours of sightseeing and picture taking I seem to have covered about 120 miles and skiffed about 20 lbs of dust.
The brush gets even bigger between 10,500 and 8,500 and in places could be called a thorn forest. Schinus 15 ft tall and a foot or more through the trunk; an even larger tree with willow-like leaves and red wood; a thorn tree; and numerous shrubs and cacti such as big opuntia, saguaro, joint coctus, and century plants. Put out a bag of traps along a stone wall of a pasture with dry short grass, big Schinus trees (15ft), big opuntia trees (15 feet), and assorted smaller weeds + cacti.
Walnut tree, at least around houses. Many of the cacti and trees with bromoboda:
Rest of Roaring types at 8 and 9 p.m. and had Onyngus or abodon and 2 Phyllothe !!!
Aug 29 Morning overcast, temp at 6:30 13°C. Total catch in traps 2 Phyllote sp., 2 long-tailed Hesperungs, and 2 abodon or Onyngus. There are Parrots here, and a huge swift-like hummingbird with a single "peep" note and with wingfeats much slower than the smaller north american species. Feeds on opuntia blossoms.
Boxes + many of the mice were lame - from eating