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P. PEARSON
1955
Bright sun when I got to the Santa Eulalia
traps at 8 a.m., probably no fog earlier, driving over
Lima. These traps with 6 Ph. darwini.
Drove up the Carretera Central to San Bartolomé
and skinned. Then put out about 60 Swedish
mouse traps on a north facing slope 1 mi. E of
San Bartolomé. Habitat mostly weedy. Thorny
"molle"
imazonia trees down on the valley floor, plus weeds.
Even the steep slopes quite weedy, with only occasional
cactus. Some grass. Some of the dry weeds had
high and many of them with stick-tight seeds. Some
rock outcrops, but the weeds much more dense for
what I consider good darwini habitat. Saw only
one set of droppings: Dove, poor-will, hummer,
flycatcher, anis.
Aug 7
August 7
Fog at Chozen overnight, up at least to a mile
above the Santa Eulalia turnoff but not much higher.
Traps held one badly eaten zuniga rat (Ondiziomys).
Most others either empty or bait gone (ants). Will have to
come back with bigger traps.
About 3 p.m. set = 55 Swedish mouse traps between
Suero and Matancera, about one mile west of Matancera, I
think, but I didn't go all the way into the town.
The hills here are grassy-weedy with some cactus, quite a
few century plants, thorn trees and thornless ones,
some mesquite. The weeds not as thick as at
San Bartolomé, but thinner than I think of for darwini.