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P. PEARSON
1955
windy windy place, all traps have to be placed in the lee of rocks where you hope not only the bait but the trap will remain.
Heavy clouds to the north but clear here. Wind seems to be from several directions, mostly [illegible] north.
Sept 16 FRI
Trap site 1 - scattered curly bunchgrass, scattered low bushes (<2 ft) such as boubaris, willow-leafed tola, lots of open gravelly ground tumbled rocks from road. Caught 1 long-tailed Hesperomyz, 3 Phyllotica and found recently killed Phyllotice.
Trap site 2 - 1-3 km down the other. About the same but with bigger & better boulders from the road, some Stiparhida close but mostly bare. 6 Phyllotica (2 of them wolf/fox skin, at least 3 oz's)
Trap site 3 - 5.8 km below (west) site 1. A boulder stream slope: coctus, several kinds of thorn bushes, Ephedra, willow-leafed brush, a few boubaris, [illegible] spring-leaved pineapple, no bunchgrass.
4-foot tall column coctus plus various ball coeti. This is "goat country" - thorn + coctum whereas site 1 & 2 are all flatness essentially.
3 Ph. wolfssolmi and 1 Groupz. The group's in an adjacent tub.
Trap site 4 - a gulley with vegetation similar to site 3. Sites 3+4 are 1.4 km apart, straddle road km.50. Whoever had been looking at our oldgoulde tree in the gulley returned to the job and stole about a dozen traps. Remember had 2 Ph. wolfssolmi
Total traps out 1 1/2 bags. Making light drizzle, no wind. Glad to get wolfssolmi and oulze or damini together.
Driven and drove to Cokkumba. Left Cokha 4 p.m.
and decided to stop collecting because the road to Ouro was