Field notes, v1519
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P. PEARSON 1955 and other bushes about same size. No coetua. also about 20 traps along stone walls in grazed places. The lupines sometimes have woody stems as well their. Aug. 13 Traps near road 4 abdon (all along cemetery wall near grass), 7 Hezperumys (some at cemetery wall + some in lupine) and 12 andrum (along cemetery, rest in lupines, especially near talus or other rocky holes. a passing gentleman tells me this location is Remacacho, an old Spanish smelter; about a mile up the road is a Cerro de Pasco mine Villarruta, and 200 yards downtown is a pueblo, Chica. After skiing drove further up the hill. Lupines stops fairly abruptly at about 13,000 ft., then bunchgrass stopped at 1 mi. E Casapolca, 14,000 ft., and set 2 bags of traps among bunchgrass on gravelly stoney slopes, some by rocks. Looks like Darwini, Churchill's country. lots of large lizards green droppings. Many kinds of altitlano plants, but in small numbers: Distichia fleshy Seneio, thorny bush (Seneio or [illegible]varpus), and Pyrophyllum. A few patches of snow about 200 ft. higher Aug. 14 Sunday. Night clear, about -3 C°, frost of ice on stream. Traps caught 1 Matormys, 3 Hezperumys, and 7 Ph. darwini [illegible], the latter big, grey, furry tailed, not looking like the andrum. After skiing drove down to 1½ mi. W of Casopolca 13,200 ft and set a short bag of traps on steep north-facing slope, rocky grassy with lots of lupines. This is the uppermost lupine.