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J. P. PEARSON 1955 4201 ♀ Phyllotis auratus ? uphill line, grass no end. 219 x 120 x 24 x 20 27 gm uphill line, grass 4202 ♂ Oryzomyis 213 x 87 x 25 x 16 up end. uphill line, grass Tschä 5, Svrat 4203 ♂ Akodon 152 x 66 x 19 x 14 [4204] ♀ Phyllotis auratus ? uphill line, grass. Probable for Rinker 215 x 119 x 25 x 20 em 5 over 26 gm 10 mi NE Pucuta, 10,500 ft., Cochabamba, Bolivia Sel # 16 4205 ♂ Hesperomys trop site 1 144 x 64 x 19 x 15 Tschä 5 4206 ♂ Phyllotis auratus/ trop site 1 230 x 124 x 26 x 20 em 17 auron Tschä 6 36 gm, Trop site 2 Tschä 4 4207 ♀ " " 223 x 122 x 26 x 20 " 17 " 32 gm 4208 ♀ " " 203 x 108 x 24 x 21 " 16" 25 gm. Trop site 2 no end 4209 ♀ " " 198 x 105 x 24 x 21 " 16" 26 gm. Trop site 2 no end 4210 ♀ " wolfsonii - 275 x 143 x 27 x 26 " 22" 65 gm. Trop site 2 Tschä 4mm 4211 ♂ " " 232 x 120 x 28 x 25 " 20" 42 gm. SKULL ONLY 4212 ? " auratus found dead, Trop site 1. 8 mi NE Pucuta, 10,000 ft., Cochabamba, Bolivia Sel # 16 4213 ♀ Brannymz trop site 3 zembi. N. Sura 263 x 135 x 27 x 24 em 19 auron 51 gm. Trop site 3 Tschä 4, Svrat 4214 ♂ Phyllotis wolffsonii - 224 x 114 x 27 x 24 " 20" 49 gm. Trop site 3 no end, 4215 ♀ " " 237 x 118 x 26 x 24 " 20" 55 gm. Trop site 4, no end, 4216 ♀ " " 235 x 120 x 26 x 24 " 20" 41 gm. 40 mi S Oruro, 12,000 ft., Oruro, Bolivia Sel # 17 4217 ♂ Murina 190 x 109 x 14 x 21 4218 ♂ Phyllotis darwini 204 x 109 x 25 x 25 em 18 auron Tschä 3- 4219 ♀ " " 199 x 104 x 24 x 24 " 20" no end. 4220 ♂ Akodon felwensis 160 x 72 x 22 x 13 Tschä 4-
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O. P. PEARSON 1955 5 mi. E. Uyuni, 13,000ft; Potasí, Bolivia Seph+20 4221 ♀ Phyllotris darwini 208 x 108 x 24 x 24 39gm testis 9, SV large 4222 ♂ " " 208 x 115 x 24" 23 33g. testis 10" 18" 4223 ♂ " " 215 x 115 x 24 x 25 35g. testis 9, SV large 4224 ♂ " " 203 x 103 x 23 x 23 33g. testis 8, SV med. 4225 ♀ " " 200 x 104 x 23 x 25 23g. no and. " 21" 4226 ♂ Bolomys 165 x 78 x 21 x 12 22gm. testis 9 SV large SKELE ONLY 4227 ♂ " 153 x 69" 21 x 14 26 gm. 1 mi. E. Uyuni, 12,000ft; Potasí, Bolivia 4228 ♂ Echinoscatus 155 x 70 x 22 x 18 17gm. testis 6 med. 4229 ♀ " 148 x 70 x 23 x 18 18gm. testis 6 SV med. SKELE ONLY 4230 ♂ " 135 x 67 x 23 x 17 14 gm. with parotid better in four, but & specimen had been in pocket with various of above. Both sent for review. 4 mi. E. Uyuni, 12,600ft; Potasí Bolivia Seph+21 4231 ♂ Phyllotis darwini 222 x 117 x 26 x 25- testis 10m 4232 ♂ " " 219x 111 x 26 x 25 " 21" 37g. testis 9 4233 ♂ " " 189 x 98 x 24 x 23 " 19" 23 g. testis 6, SV med. 4234 ♀ " " 189 x 98" 24 x 24 " 20" 24 g. no and. vaginal lips. 4235 ♂ " " 196 x 105 x 25 x 25 " 21" 22g. testis 4 4236 ♂ Bolomys 151 x 65x21 x 14 " 26 gm. testis 7, SV large. 30 mi. W NW Cotagaita, 11,000ft, Potasí Bolivia Seph+22, 1955 no and. 4237 ♀ Brommys 248 [122] x 31 x 24 m/19 acran. Yuracasa, 20 mi. SSE Tarqui, 10,500ft; Potasí, Bolivia Seph+25 2gm hyo-gena, 2 burp and left hemi 2 cl (g?) on, 4238 ♀ Octodon trypz 323 x 150 x 37 x 28 no and. M; no cl 4239 ♂ Hesperomys 152x78 x 20 x 17
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no, Cullway From Burren entrance. Steep hillside, narrow valley, mangy stonewalls, hillside crumbling terraces and rock outcrops, the walk with low bushes of many sorts including a couple of serophyll lupines. Looks like archium habitat, but hope to get magister. One bat flying at dusk. A few tree joint cactuses; much grazing by cone burrows. Bushes include Baccharis, Serophylari- (caleolaria) aecea, a dissected-leaf Senecio, nettles. Put out one bag of traps just before dark. Eucalyptus here in the town. Aug 20. Sat. Traps produced only 2 mice, longish-tailed big Hispermyx, Big hummer (Potogonia?) seen and another smaller black hummer at the rocks of dawn. Large coarse stick nest in one of the two joint cactuses may be cactus wren, but have rather seen nor heard any. Colder south-facing slope just below here has good rich lupines. Local yokel (town Cullway) says altitude is 14,900 ft'. About 2 miles below the town the roadside and streamside has considerable thorn bushes with lavender flowers, about 6 ft-tall! and Took another wrong turn and ended at Huaros, but near there encountered some nice stone wall-bush habitat remnant of magister habitat above Tarata. 12,000 ft. Lush lupines, Caleolaria, and other bushes, many with showy flowers and hummingbirds. Set half a bag of traps at noon. Took a couple of hours because of small boys, people working in the fields, etc. Then drove down the Canta road about 15 kilometers and set a half bag among large buildings + bushes (Baccharis + others) and joint cactus. Then drove up to the river below Huaros and set among stones
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and found in two places. This makes 4 traps lines, some of them in subsections, essentially all among rocks + bushes. Highest vegetation is the tree joint coctus (up to 10ft.), but some of the other bushes reach almost that high when supported by one of these coctuses. Saw no droppings while sitting. Was most frustrating trying to set and fearing that I was being watched! Everyone says there are trout in the river, but especially in the lakes higher up. Tried 4 places along the river with a spinner, but no hits. Aug 21 Sunny. Catch at H varos, 12,000ft.; ? Hesperomyz and 2 Phyllothrix andrini?. At Below Hvaros, 11,500: 4 Hesperomyz, 1 Orgonomy (micro), 1 Phyllothrix andrini, and 2 Orgonyms??. at 3mi. W Hvaros, 11,300 ft.: 1 abdon, 1 Orgonymus (anivers), and 7 Phe andrini - with two checks at 5pm: Cantarona 9800, Choroba 9200. See from aegina story at Hvaros. dammini REVIEW OF SPECIMENS: In Anise Valley Phaeolomatus from Marin, 5200 2000 ft. to 3mi. E San Bartolo, 4800 ft. (D.O.R.). No sign of intergradation x #1 Phe andrini from 1 mi. W Martorena, 6500ft. up to 1 1/2 mi. W Casofleda 13,200 ft. where it is sympatric with P. posticulis.. This is the lowest posticulis. Must have more between 5200 4800 ft. and 6500 ft. to bring lomatus and andrini together. In Cantar Valley, have andrini so far from 12,000, 11,500, and 11,300. to Drove about a mile west of Cantar and parked in a Uin the road. Set a short box of traps along various stone walls lined with weeds and brush. A few centing plants, but no caten.
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P. PEARSON 1955 So these two trap lines straddle Cienita Canyon! Then returned to Mena for the night and set about half a line of traps at the [illegible] black house across the road and above the RR station. Unlike last night, most of this Tillandsia is the biggest kind - but sparser. However, up near the top of the hill I found what looks like 2 visorcha burrows and set steel traps there as well as 1 other steel trap in a not-so-good place. Quite often dropping around. These traps set at dusk so better not run them too early so that a diurnal beast would have time to get caught in the morning. Fog lower down the valley, but none at Mena yet (7:15). 1/2 moon now. [Foggy at 8:30pm] a corner iron pole (old) up by the visorcha burrows suggests that local hunters had been up there. Aug 24 clearish at 6 a.m. scented for damp rusty smoke (cotton plant burning season), but fog came in about 7 a.m. Nothing in Mena traps line, but while running it saw a visorcha nearing steel traps and shot at him but missed, while checking one of the traps later he dashed out of a hole 6 feet away from me and escaped. Left 5 steel traps there, Wild cat squadded on road at Cienita Canyon. The trap line up on the cliff at 1 mi. E. San Bernardino, 5200 ft., caught [illegible], 1 ardwin, and 1 jwr. possibly [illegible]. THe line at 1 mi. W Suevo, 6000ft; caught 1 jwr. Zuni? rat, [illegible]?, and 5 [illegible]?, several of these pregnant, the first pregnant ardwin, [illegible]. Several traps on the lower part of
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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
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P. PEARSON 1955 The evening cold (about +4°), windy-blustery. Real altiplano weather, partly cloudy. Sept. 8 Heavy frost, -2°C, the mires in the traps white from frost; The slightly less than 2 bags of traps caught 1 [illegible], 2 Ph. sulphureus, and 4 Ph. darwini. Mice were caught only at stone piles a foot or more deep, preferably 2 or 3 feet deep; not along the windrows of stones piled only a few stones deep, and not away from stone piles. The big sulphurina (possibly daleronops?) was caught late because he was still lump and unforestled. 20 miles S Saloy, 13,000 ft. After the first had been removed and the specimens dried, there seem to be: 4 Ph. darwini, 1 Heffermehl's drolla, 1 Ph. sulphurina or daleronops, and 1 [illegible] with a lobbed tail. This is my first record of mice from the altiplanos. It was certainly in good altiplano country, ½ mile from nearest hut. I started etc. until noon, then drove toward Oruro. Good unpaved road. Much of the way was a mixture of tola trees somewhat like Pampatitina, or like Valley of the Winds at Santa Rosa but tola here shorter. Both Lepidophyllum grandangulare and rigidum present. Passed one set of two-treer dryings at about km 100 (about halfway between Saloy and Oruro), but saw and heard no trees. Some holes plugged golfball-like. Stopped at 4 p.m. on a rolling bunch-grass and tola pampa. Ichn and a coarser bunch grass with a few patches of mothura grass without tola. Almost all the tola is grandangulare, but considerably thorn bush Margynopsis mixed in, plus a few Ephedra and cactiacaetine. No
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Ran traps at 8km and had several Ph subliminı and one abdon bolivensis. Sept. 10 Light frost. Temp -2°. T traps had 13 Ph sublimini, 4 Abdon Bolivensis, and 3 Hesperomyza droller, a captive sublini got out of his cage and drowned in the water bucket. Cauterised llamas bedded down on the hillside. This camp is at km.96 on the Oruro-Cochabamba road, 14,000ft., 20 miles NE of Tacofaya, Cochabamba. at 13,500ft. near the Oruro-Cochabamba border started to see Nothoprocta in rich. Shot 2 and saw 6 others in a few miles. O+4 non-breeding and a 3/4 grown f. Also saw a flying flock of 5 hualatares, the first for weeks. No bigards. A little east of the Oruro- Cocha border started seeing after guanin/pigs along the road and all the way down to 9000 ft. walking. They may account for the dufflings. Thought were albacores. The road crosses much country that looks OK for vicunas, but saw none. Finally drove off on east side, just through a good freemna zone at 12,000ft., then becomes bushy and then semi- with Schinus and numerous shrubs and trees near to me. Road drops down to the Tofeani river at about 7500ft (Eucalyptus, orange, corna brown). Decided to go up to Tofeani; the wolfachini type locality, which they said was 6 degrees upstream. The road goes straight up the river bed, which is 150 yds wide border stream, with the stream about 25 ft wide. It started to rain and with no escape from the river bed and invisible road that forks the stream again & again, after 6 km. I decided to come back.
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P. PEARSON 1955 Sun. & Drone back up the Oruro road to 9000 ft in thorn scrub, and after a few more showers set traps. a little over 1 log on 6 short lines, all in thorn scrub, some sector: night deer, warmish. The pipe-line camp is 15 mi E Topariri, 9000 ft, Cacha Sat. 11 morning deer. Traps had 17 abatorn, 8 Ph. wolffsonii, and 1 broomps; the latter hardly distinguishable from the "", but with a curious species of house? fastened around the lips. The catrine men here is a big one with fleshy white bands on tail and wing. Song in this part =- ~~~~, repeated many times and many modifications. Back down at the river (Topariri) at 8500 ft saw a large herd of deer - amidst fags, orange, carr brown etc. Sat. 12 Two laborious efforts to find some good tripping ambushes destiny of Cochabamba, sheltered in eucalyptus groves. Great job for traps in morning, then left for Concaripa at 9:30 am, on the Santa Cruz road. First 30 miles gloriously paved. one is torn between going fast and going slow to make it last. Road goes through bushy country and splits into bushy grass-thorn (Margarypense?) at 11,700 ft about 70 km out, and even pure bushy grass plus some cultivation. Highest about 12,000 ft. a good quebrizo zone at about 9600 ft, especially about km. 130, but later this altitude becomes cloud forest. More & more forest as one approaches Concaripa, even a couple of saw-mills. The road goes along a ridge between the Rio Chilco (north) and Rio Mizque (south) at 9500 ft. To the north is solid forest as far as the eye can see, and solid up to this altitude. To the south the forest is patchy, interspersed with brush & cultivation, cloud forest rich at 8700 and 9500 ft, even bamboo and tree ferns.
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and ponds and sedge grass and Phrygium, all remnant of Tres Cuenas and above Amailamba. Stopped at 5 p.m. 5 mi. W Conarapa, 7500 ft. Vegetation here is brushy with patches of cloud forest, and the Conarapa valley looks similar plus more cultivation. Can see a few small flats down below with tree cover, but no good Phyllotea country. Set about 1 bog of traps along a ridge with rock outcrops plus succulents, grass, and many succulents, plus a few orchids (not flowering) and ferme - about a dozen of these traps in cloud forest (not met). The past several miles have been extremely windy. I expected the wind to die down at dusk, but it's still blasting blowing, rocking the trees, pushing you off balance when you are out in it. It will probably blow bout off some traps, if not blow away whole traps. Habitat looks poor for Phyllotea too much ground cover and few bunches - might clear windy. Left 13 we. Traps did better than expected. The short bog along the brushy succulent ridge with sparse rock outcrops caught 5 Ph wolffschin, 1 Abudon?, and 1 Abrucana. Five traps in a pocket of cloud forest caught 2 Ph. wolffi, and one big Abudon? and the other 2 traps spring empty. This is an especially good patch of cloud forest in a V in the road, cliff on one side, jungle along the road with 10-foot tobacco, not damp or wet at this season, but definitely forest with 50-foot tressa 2-ft DBH. Three Phyllotea definitely in woods. A lot of clearing of forest is going on and has gone on in the past. Conarapa is not in forest, but it is surrounded by large pockets and may once have been forested.
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P. PEARSON 1955 Catching albocana on this brushy-orbity ridge only a few hundred yards from cloud forest makes it easier to understand albocana alberta at Wechn Rachen (in graves). Went down into Conavolpa for gas. Forgot to take altihold but it appeared to be 500 to 1000 ft lower than my camp, which was 7500 ft. The wolffschnei here definitely darker than topocani. Still windy in early a.m., but slowing about 10 a.m. Drove up the hill to the summit where cloud forest is damkest on the ridge where all is forest to the north or northeast, canyoned amidst patches of cloud forest; soft bunch grass meadows, ponds, and a little hard brush. Even small patches of trees only 20 feet across are "moss" covered with lots of sphagnum, orchids, fuchsias etc. Ground in many places with lycopodia, vaccinium, etc. One pond had a tern on it and 2 caracaras stalking through the grass at the edge. Alternate sun and patches of fog blowing past from the north. Put out 2 logs of trifes on 6 short traps lines; forest, grass, brush, rocksides from road. Hope to see how woodsy and boggy wolffschnei will get and add to the series of dark specimens. 8 pm clear, huge climbing all around. This camp 20 mi. E Totoro, 9700 ft; Cochabamba. Sept. 14 Morning alternately cloudy & foggy; felt like Maine down-trooping weather. Even tried to push Phylloste too far into the cloud forest, caught none. Only 3 dark albocana, 1 Gymptenia?, and 1 Gmpzamps left early towards Cochabamba and drove until noon. Stopped at a place where Queirra and bunch meets bunch grass, where I hope to get both osidal and wolffschnei. Set two logs of trifes,
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P. PEARSON 1955 the lower part of the line in querns - grass with a mixture of other shrubs and a spring-loved small pineapple. Rock outcrops and stone retaining walls. In the upper part of the line only querns and grass and finally pure grass with only meadow rock outcrops. This is a fine bunch grass, not real rich, and there is little bare ground because of [illegible] grassy covering and the foliage flakes of quern bark, which have blown quite a distance from the trees. Altitude at lower traps 10,400 ft., upper over about 300 ft or more higher. Location unknown, probably near Tiroque Chio. Heavy clouds pouring over the hills to the east only a few miles from here (the forest [illegible] through), but still sunny here (4:30 p.m.) 5/2175 This camp 15 mi. ESE Tiroque, 10,500 ft. [Tiroque Chio of A.G.S maps] km. Dew but clear. Traps among boulders below the wood in bunch, 6-footh Buckhorn like bunch with only a little grass caught 1 osiel, bunch-grass- querns about 50 feet away. The lower, bushy part of the other line carried 3 Phoxas and 2 Abodon Bolivianus. The upper grassy part caught 1 Gymnastis, 4 osiel, and 4 abodon. Hence, no wolf-skin, and osiels living in more bunch than I would have expected. Guinea pigs here. Tiroque seems to be a notorious locality, even to the native here, and is further confused by there being a village "Tiroque" on the A.G.S. 1:1 million map plus a larger town "Tiroque Chio." The people I asked referred to this Tiroque Chio as Tiroque and looked blank at the name. Tiroque Chio. Drive across the rich country, then set traps at several elevations about 5 miles W of Tiroque, 10,000 ft, but to avoid the confusion I shall call it 10 miles NE Purite. This is another
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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
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going to be closed tomorrow. Run into heavy snowfall almost as soon as I got up into the ichn country and some snow from there all the way across the high country until just before I stopped down in the tela valley at about km 60, about 1 1/2 due out from Oruro. There was about 3 miles of snow on the road near the Cocharamba end and coming down hard like on the Oruro end. 2 mice crossed the road, could have been large Rh. suffimixis. Because of the snow and the harrowing drive I was impressed at how much high country there was between Oruro-Teba. Sept. 17 Off again at 6 a.m., clear, and arrived Oruros 8:45 after slowant and refueling. All morning getting a tube for my other spare, then off for Uyuni. Some of the road goes across a bay of Poofro, 6 miles above water level, with flamingo, shore birds, curlews, slhezie, ducks, + gulls. Other parts of the Poofor pumpas are sand dunes, other pure Fiestera ortholagids also Bacchus and ichn and mixture of Barbos-ichn-Fiesta. Some cultivation, even in Fiesta. Couldn't resist a strong hillrid with Barbos+ichn and no house at 40 mile 5 Oruro, so stopped at 3 p.m. Many stone walls, a few Cocharaba cothas. Parakeets here. Tola 1-2 feet [illegible] Forgot to mention also wide pumpas with dwarf fork vegetation like at Ichn-pachuni. Sept. 18 The trip line that was going to be so tedious gone! Mamora, 2 Rh. dominii, and 5 Abodan. Huffy! Morning clear, calm front on windshield. A few miles south of camp in tela-ichn shot 2 Mithogwata, one laying female. Country about same to
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. P. PEARSON 1955 Challapata when it gets much sandier. One man in "when asked about the road to Rio Mulatos said it was good but a little sandy. Dozens of places where people had to need Tola and grade to escape from sandy places in the road showed that he was right. Much pampas with Festuca orthophylla and drifted sand, also Tola (mostly quadrangular) and sand, and combinations of these plus ichu and Margyricarpus? Also pampas of dwarf forbes. Many tucos, which they call tojoz or tocoz. A little cultivation, and a little grazing (sheep, burrros, llamas) but mostly tocoz + Tola. A railroad station an hour north of Rio Mulatos had 5 acre-feet of cut + bundled Tola piled up by the trucks waiting to be shipped. Saw a band of 6 vicunas just north of Rio Mulatos and 2 stray vicunas grazing with llamas just south of Rio Mulatos. Gorgeous pampas should have had lots more. Stopped for a couple of hours for showering and doumhy, then drove until 5:30 to 16 mi. ESE Rio Mulatos, 12,700 ft, Potosi. Set one bog of types in Tola + bare story ground (but no rocks shelter or boulders). The Tola 2-3 ft tall and 5 species including Bocchona, nowom-named Bocchina Festuca orthophylla quadrangular, and 2 thorny species, one remnant of Margyricarpus but bigger. Only a couple of clumps of Stypha on the whole line; a few cushion cacti and one lone 8-foot phallic cactus. Saw 3 cars on the road all day. Sept. 19 Night clear, cold, no frost. Temp 6 a.m. +2°. In types nothing; one spring empty. Herd 2 groups of Guanacos, no
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P. PEARSON 1955 Festuca right here but some nearby. Drove to Uyuni for mail & gas, then east of town for trap sites. Site 1 - Pompa, 1 mi. E Uyuni, 12,100 ft. Very bare sandy pompa with half-buried pillows of yarata, dwarf grass, dried thorn plants about 8" high, and a few piles of rocks where the traps are set. Saw 2 very small lizards. Site 2 - 2 mi. E Uyuni, 12,100 ft. Drifted sand and tota. Site 3 - 5 mi E Uyuni, 13,000 ft. A rocky hill with 8-foot phollic cactus, shorter fuzzy cactus, pallver cactus, Ephedra, and various tota, a few clumps of ichue. Sept 20 TUE Uyuni. The high wind while I was setting traps yesterday after- noon died down at dusk, came up again during the night, was gone at dawn, then came up again during the morning. Heard Tarinotus calling, saw parakeets. June 1 had 3 Eligmodontia; June 2 had 1 Eligmodontia. June 3 had 5 Lba dormini + 5 Bolomyx alivirentis? Many springs & empties, probably by Alviconos? or Otdotobomys?, whose scats and white urine were abundant. Harecut and vegetation for repair of spactures in Uyuni, then set 1 1/2 traps part way up the hill east of town. Not as high as Site 3 of last night, not as much cactus; mostly bare stony ground and 1-foot narrow-based Bocchinie, some cushion cactus and fuzzy cactus but none of the big phollic cactus. All sets along road-supporting stone walls. Evening clear & calm. Checked out trap line at 8:30 p.m. and had 2 Phyllothea and discovered the last shot springs the traps. Out of a stone wall he chuckled at me and with the flashlight I could see only a few
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miles away a big Octodon or Octodontmys (big, grey, long tail with black brush at end). Could almost touch him. Sept. 21 5 Rh Jermini and 2 rusty Bolomyx. At least 15 traps spring empty by Octodon. Two of them had points of cactus in them, one of the points half eaten. This is the roast with the white urine, it's the wood lot of this area. As the result of a great confusion of information & misinterpret- ion about roads from Uyuni to Tarija, I find myself centered in the center of a 200-yard wide boulder-strewn river bed 6 1/2 hours out of Uyuni, including one hour stuck in the mud. Almost certainly I took the wrong odine, because [illegible] I have been wading down creek bottoms much of the afternoon and my host 2 hitchhikers tell me this is the Rio Blanco I am descending and that the town of Rio Blanco is 50 km. downstream. The road went from Uyuni to Luloengo, then west of Cero Chino, near Cero Tamao, then disappeared into creek bottoms. Much space Pampea near Chino, salty, stony, scattered short tela meniscous virenia but scattered and not (tetron 12500 + 13,000?) many mes cheered bands. No obvious young. Bare eroded hills with very sparse tela; and practically no people. As uninhabited as any part of the altiplano I know. My cars on the road. Asked one of my 3 hitchhikers how many cars a day went by, and he said once a week. The river bottom now is beginning to get "goaty" with a mixture of bushier cactus (low and cardon-like), and a fairly big thorn tree 12 ft tall and 8 inches down. Practically no grass, a few houses now - but more upstream. General situation almost identical with the Californian road that I decided not to ascend.
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P. PEARSON 1955 Stuffed at 6:30 am mid-river led with rainbow hummingbird, thunderstorm, sprinkle of rain here. Down the flash floods; set some traps - a little over 1/2 day before it got dark. at altitude 11,000 ft. Big Schinus trees. 30 mi. WNW Cotagaita. Sept 22th Only one mouse in traps, a brownpy. About half of them springy empty - probably October . Off downstream at 6:30 am. In 3 hours forded the Rio Blanco 90 times. Forced 100 crossings in first 35 miles, and some of the fords deep enough to drown a passenger car. Not much change in vegetation; fruit trees in bloom but not ripen until Feb. + March. Cotagaita about 11 am; welcomed by officials as though I were the first car in weeks. They had to hunt up the key to the office to get the stamp to make my Hoja de Ruta. Then about 4 hours to Topiza. Interesting passenger who knew some of the plants and animals. Calls Schinus "molle", hence the species name. Still thorn-tree carton goat country all the way to Topiza, confined in a spectacularly eroded quebrada 1 mi. N Topiza, 10,000 ft. with thorn tree, cardinal carton, low plants, various shrubs, a few clumps of reeds. Lots of rocks. Habitat a bit more open (more open ground between plants) than the good Rio wolfshin country that I have seen so far. Seems to be October here, too. Flota of goats drifted down the canyon just before dark, plus burro looked quite friendly Jacklighting at 8. Heard an October in a patch of low plants but couldn't see him. Poor will.
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P. PEARSON 1955 Sept. 25 Yuruma. The akedra-thorn trail has had 4 Hefferwyz, all in somewhat grassy places (rich). The cotna-thorn-rich line had 2 Hefferwyz (grassy), 1' Geronwyz (thorny) and, at least one big Octodon. One of the Geronwyz upon skinnin' turns out to be a Phyllotia Billybighta. Grayey, later in life lighter, foot/pose different. Seems more like damini than gracilis. Just beyond the fields of Yuruma the vegetation changes abruptly. No more cotna, no akedra; a dry tela appears-like a narrow-leaved Barbaria plant a foot tall. This makes prampas+ rolling hills of bushy thorn (not red tree and yuruma), tela, and rich. Still lots of bare ground. Camped at 5 mi. W Villazon, 11,500 ft, at one of two rock outcrofs seen today, and the outcrops not providing much shelter for Phyllotia. Vegetation is tela, grass (noticeable but an oat-like stem) and widely scattered thorn bushes. Used to be some bigger than trees but recently cut. Cold + windy. About 1 1/4 logs of traps out. Few phyllotising places to set. Boote, sheep, & burrows. Sept. 26 Traps held 5 Elgyodontia (under thorn bunks on prampas), 3 Hefferwyz, 1 Bolonyz (under thorn on prampas), and 2 Phyllotia damini (in rocks); one of these in front of the only good burrow that I saw. Night clear with light frost + dew. A ghastly dog wrestling with the adwara. He won. Truck is impounded, I am in a "hotel," go to Argentina tomorrow by train at 9:30 am. Sept. 27 The police official who stamps Margarta showed up at 9 a.m., and dash with suitcase down railroad track (mile) toward train waiting at La Quica station. Saw at gate says need permit to pass with 100 mouse traps. And dash back to Villazon adwara who says "Don't"
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need permit, but under the urgency of the situation made off a memo that gets me past the Bolivian guard into Argentina. 10 minutes to go. an Argentine guard escorts me to the Argentino customs, where we wait until the argentino cabrona shows up for work at 9:30. So we sit and watch my train pull out. That's all right says the guard, there will be another train day after tomorrow. Three days to travel 1 mile. At 3 p.m. found a truck load of coca leaving for Jujuy and got a ride on top. The road from La Quiaca to Abra Pampa is wide open with mountains in the distance to the left and right, sometimes sandy, lots of tree droppings. An Argentine passenger called them "tojo", not trees-trees. Abra Pampa is flat punpa, short grass, many rae-punpa, tola, some tuvel grass, and some rocky hills 1/2 mile SW of town. These are the first hills close to road and look fine for Ph. darmini. Flight turn here for Casabindo. From Abapampa to Tres Oveces is more hilly, good altiplano, OK for darmini. Park at Tres Oveces but 3/4 moon enabled me to get an idea of the vegetation. Quite a stretch of tola and of good altiplano, then descent into a thorn zone. Thorn brush and Saguaro appear a little above Humahuaca, The Saguaro cactus being especially dense for a while. Then a more arid stretch between Humahuaca and Tilcara. Humahuaca, despite size of letter on map, is much larger than Tilcara and quite charming, with old colored street lights etc. No really brushy zone seen, except the thorn tree zone.
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Sept.28 Tilcara. The valley here is full of Lombardy Poplars, willows, a few Ahorn trees, and fruit trees such as pear, peaches, apples, cherries (in bloom), but the hills on both sides are quite arid. Put out 1 1/2 logs of traps east of town and about 500 ft. higher in an interesting combination of short grass, tola, ephedra (these stems but not nearly as tall as at Yurumas), low opuntia, some another cactus, a few clumps of ichn, scattered saguaro-cactae, and much "pillon-pineapple". This is a pillon-forming plant that from 50 feet looks like a medium-sized Tillandsia, but the leaves are exceedingly short-stiffed and stiff & the blossoms are long tubular yellow, much larger than in Tillandsia. This Pillon/pineapple dominates much of my trap line. Many good big rocks, but most or all the holes dominated / pear / by October whose droppings + white urine were abundant. I fogged down from extreme thirst before all the traps were out. Carried here with a great water deficit from Villagon and hadn't been able to make it up at the Hotel Esperanza and on "pops" in the village, so am now drinking quarts of local water. Put out about a dozen more traps along a slightly brushy stone wall near the cemetery at dusk. On upper live - parakeets, humming, sheeps goats Sept.29 TH 3 Ph = copasana grivoviridis in the graveyard line and 7 Ph darwini in the hillside line east of town. Also 1 Abodon on hillside line. at dusk put about 1 log of traps around an alfalfa pasture on the edge of town - stone wall, some brush, and large leafless thornless tree. Pile of twigs, leaves + litter on the ground. This tree has loose shreddy
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(mother decided to divide) bark and compound fence with alternate splits. Nearby this is a historic algarrobo also with bronze tablet. Under this tree occurred (1819) some heroic deed during the war with Spain. The whole valley may have had many more trees at one time. at 10p.m (after dinner!) put 1/2 bag of traps (by full the cemetery. twilight) around Sep. 30 Tilcara Cemetery line had nothing. Stone wall around edge of pasture had 3 lbs. graomodes and 1 big Rh. megalaria. The latter along stone wall, somewhat brushy, with Schinus trees. Mountains in background. In afternoon walked to La Garganta del Diablo, a dramatic canyon east of town. About a mile further on are a couple of forms that according to one of the people in Tilcara is Alfaretto, a location given by Thomas as 15 km NE Mainran. There used to be a good road to Alfareto, but scale slides have narrowed it to a burro trail. At Alfareto are a stream with waterfalls, saguaros, short cacti, bushes, old stone walls, grass, a few cultivated fields, some fallen- pineapple but not as much as on the hills nearby, a few willows, and some Schinus or algarrobo. The stone wall with some brush and the cacti with loose rocks look like a good meeting place for Rh. darwinii and graomodes - as Lisson or Burdin found. A cold wind blowing up the valley most of the day with sunny clouds on the nearby hills, but mostly sunny here. Local people say Sierra de Zenta is east of Humhuaca, not 10km E of Tilcara as I have read from Thomas. This makes sense with the A.G.S. map. Tilcara Oct. 1 almost 2 bags of traps out along brushy stone walls. Early part of night cloudy, but clear in a.m. with light frost in
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P. PEARSON 1955 Good bunch grass up to Volcan; almost certainly ocales here. Sign at Volcan station says 2460 m., not >= 300 as on British Museum specimens or Thomas papers. Fit labels of my specimens accordingly. A little above Punisnor is a stretch of thorn-tree, saguaro, opuntia, with a sprinkling of bunch grass. Saguaro cactus called "cardón" here. Oct. 4 All morning getting census border etc., then just as I was ready to leave Villazon a carabinero foisted two hatchabackers off on me. They are probably coca smugglers. I explained in time that I was going to set traps and camp out and they said they were accustomed to this, but when I stopped at 5:30, one of them asked where they were going to eat + sleep. I sat through until dark, then took them down to Quilvada Honda when they said there was a hotel. Two short logs of tracks in rocky tota. 25 min. NE Villazon, 12,200 ft. Most of the route here from Villazon has been stoney tota, with one quilvada of thorn, saguaro, + grass. Night cloudy, sprinkles of rain, blacks. There is another Tree Creek west of gujuy, but probably not the one where Simons (or Burdin?) collected. Oct. 5 Tracks were in mostly rocky Boecaria? 1-2 feet tall, with some other pungent totas as well, especially along the bottom of the wash. A few 6-foot thorny bushes, a few clumps of grass, and some short cacti. Tracks caught 4 Pli. darwinii. This locality, 25 min. NE Villazon, is near a few huts and "hotel" known as Quilvada Honda. Drove to Tarija. First part of drive more tota, then good Berreichen including a summit at 13,000 ft. In one/one
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when possible kind of spell off and look for the way that we write in the language that makes sense to us so we can speak into it, play with it for yourself you just want to test out or experiment with a song and if you like it then great and I've been working on a few things but I haven't been able to get my hands on the recordings yet so I'm still in the dark about what direction I want to take it. So far I think the song is pretty good but I don't know if it's got enough of a hook for me to be able to use it. I also think that it might be a little bit too long for the radio. So I'm going to have to cut some of it out or maybe even change the structure of it. So far I've been working on a few things but I haven't been able to get my hands on the recordings yet so I'm still in the dark about what direction I want to take it. So far I think the song is pretty good but I don't know if it's got enough of a hook for me to be able to use it. I also think that it might be a little bit too long for the radio. So I'm going to have to cut some of it out or maybe even change the structure of it. So far I've been working on a few things but I haven't been able to get my hands on the recordings yet so I'm still in the dark about what direction I want to take it. So far I think the song is pretty good but I don't know if it's got enough of a hook for me to be able to use it. I also think that it might be a little bit too long for the radio. So I'm going to have to cut some of it out or maybe even change the structure of it.
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PEARSON 1955 a few patches of Festuca. The Sama locality is rich but very rocky. Much of the country with caracaras, llama mineros etc., alike with coots + flamingoes. Then a long rocky road descent to Tarija, which is goat country. Much bare ground or sparse grass with thorn tree, lecheros, a few caeti, and goats. Under cultivation are corn, vegetables etc., plus fruit trees (not citrus), cana brava. Thunder and heavy rain at 4:30 delayed traps setting, but got out 2 logs before dark in good "goat country" along stone walls (not many stone walls around) and on bouldered hill. Many guinea pig droppings. Vegetation thornbush + thorn tree (including algarrobo), lecheros, smaller "sage" bushes, and sparse grass and coctus (some low opuntas, no Saguaro). One of the stone walls was supplemented by thorn branches piled along and on it. This locality a few miles south of Tarija, 6700ft. Much lollonde here about. Oct. 6 Trophine with 7 grouse, 7 Abadon, and 1 Marmona. morning sunny, clouds pouring over the mountain range to the southeast. A great many traps sprung + safely, many baits stolen by ants. Looked for spring shekels lost in Tarija, then drove back toward Sama in search of Ph. = Colomacana groenmader or woffschnei. Camped at 8200 ft. in scattered tela, thorn bushes, and lucky grass (curly), with short grasses abundant also. Soil very shallow. A few algarrobos up to 10 ft or so. Traps around a brushy house ruin, along a stone wall, and along a creek. Late afternoon + evening cloudy. Nothura colling at dusk. 10 miles NW Tarija, NW coctus
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P. PEARSON 1957 Oct. 7 Trope had 1 Ph oxida?, 2 long-tailed Oryzomyi, and 3 absolom solivensis. The big, active ante present at almost every trofe site when I set the trap turned out to be highly carnivorous, but they left the corn meal bait alone. Much Nothura foraging in early a.m. Heavy dew. Drove from 9 to 1; mostly curly bunchgrass, as at overniglt camp, up to summit, then good ichin and Margyriapus from Sana north. Stopped early because it looked like good Phyllothe country and the road for ahead seemed to go through poor country. Here seems to be lower edge of ichin and upper edge of coetus-thorn. Two boys of trope set along road-running wall. Lots of squaro, fuzzy coetus, low opuntia and other corti; thorn bushes up to 5ft high, pallom pineapple as at Tilcara, small shell as at Tilcara, ichin, and assorted small shrubs. Reminiscent of Juncura (which is not far away) but no sphedra, reminiscent of Tilcara, 8500 but grassier. Many Octodon droppings. Evening clear & windy. Ran half the trap 8-9 and had 4 Hesperomys, 2 Ph darmini, and 1 what looks like Rh-nogalaria, very much still alive in the trap. Shot 1 Marmosa in stone wall near big thorn brush. The locality about 25 mi. SSE Camatagua, 11,500ft; Tarija. Actually there are a half dozen hats here that call themselves Ciengillas, but not on map. Oct. 8 Much rotomess. Five more Rh-nogalaria making 6 in all (this is considerably possibility that these are Androomyi, not nogalaria); a total of 4 Hesperomys; the 1 Marmosa shot; and 15 Ph. darmini. All of the nogalaria on the first part of the line, and most of the darmini around the corner on the second part.
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PEARSON 1955 skinning until 3 p.m., then drove until 5, but 1/2 hour stuck in mud. Stopped at 8500 ft, probably approaching El Cumbre and Rio San Juan (again). Set 2 logs of traps along stone walls and rocky slopes. SUN Oct.9 This locality 20 mi. SSE Camotogini, 8500 ft; Tarifa. Semi-arid paja here, and goats in traps were Graomys and Phyllotis. One or two good Graomy's, a few sticky ones (Ph. graomoida?), and a lot of cerunni? but longer-tailed than yesterday's. Total 20 mice, nothing else of genus Phyllotis + Graomy's), nothing else. Such may have put me down in a place where Ph. graomoida cultriformis is an intergrade or hybrid. In any event, I am in a place where I can't tell what I'm catching, so am going to stay another night to compound the confusion. 46 mice in 2 nights, 35 of them saved. Even under the mattress they begin to scurry about 3 p.m. While running my traps in a.m., a truck broke two teeth out of its differential 100 yards from camp, so I had company all day who drank up all my water. Skinned until 3 p.m., then towed the truck a mile down the road to a couple of huts under dog molly trees. My locality is about 2 miles south of the bridge over the San Juan River, maybe 3 miles S of a Pueblo, San Carreras. Vegetation see moravia. Put out (1/2 logs of traps in about same locations as yesterday. Oct.10 This is good country also. Fine red sand in the rocky stony hillsides practically no grass, no bunch grass. Scattered shrubs including small thorn trees up to 10 ft, a creosote bush up to 5 ft, a small "fig" similar to that at Chocon, assorted other bushes, mostly thorny, low growers, but no saguaro or fuzzy cactus. A clematis vine rather somewhat larger + more scruffy than the one
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at Tiquera but similarly scrubby/pointed. Scheme a mile down stream near the river. 13 unidentified bromiys - darwinii - wolfarini - grandis in the tropes. Sleamed until 11, then drove north up the valley to Camargo at 4 p.m. Much of the quebrada is same as at Camp, but brush become smaller, sparser to the north, fewer than trees, more kinds of cacti appear, and the willow - leafed shrub. Very hot! Sun shade at noon 35°C, and the road too rough to go fast enough to create a breeze. at 5 p.m., cloudy, 34°; and at 6 p.m. 32° after thunder & lightning in the hills nearby and a trace of rain here. &to 8:30 p.m., 25° and clear. It's not altiplano, but Phyllothe abundant! Oct.11 Camargo. Temps at 6 a.m., cloudy, 19°. 4 Phyllothas in tropes. This valley has quite a few avocados & grapes, the latter trained either on cane from trellises or up into severely crowned Schinza trees. As you climb up out of the north end of the valley vegetation gets ruder. Cacti, thorn, brush, willow, Schinas and lots of rocks at 10,000 ft. should be good triffing. Then a stretch of Not umbilics about 6000ft.?? above Lina. Then a stretch of quebrada- locobris,- richer than rather bare stony altiplano. Stopped at 12,300 ft. 40km by road short of Potosi'. Here there are scattered bushes (many of them thorny), fuzzy cactus, and a little bit of bunching grass. This is about ½ mi. by road south of the Tiquiza-Camargo-Potosi fork, call 20 mi. S. Potosi'. Put out ½ bag of trifes along brushy stone walls, mostly after dark.
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P. PEARSON 1955 Oct. 12 Tarshine, despite being set often darks, did very well. 6 Andromyzes, 1 Maranar, 1 Alcedon, and 13 Ph-darmini. Andromyzes has droppings more spherical than most rats, and in sheltered crannies there may be a cup or more of them. Guineafry droppings like deer, blue guinea pig skull. Drove to Potosi where everything was closed because of fiesta. Ph. bolivianus near Potosi, saw some wood. Then drove towards Oruro and skinned. Skiffed after darks about 110 km., out of Oruro/Potosi. Road goes through much good altiplano including ichu, Festuca, and tota. In some places equal amounts of Festuca + Stipa. All day on the Potosi-Oruro road and passed 2 vehicles. Oct. 13 T.H. Off at dawn to Oruro, then about 60 km more toward La Paz. Rain at 5 pm just north of Oruro. About an hour east of Challopata is a short-grain ponga also Pehr-Pichinni and north similar trees (not real fresh dirt) and Palo, similar trees. These less shy. Sawlacked across one small old lava and heard no building. Similar trees also a few miles north of Challopata. Oct. 14 La Paz at noon. Hassle with aduana and hunt for stable feet. Adorno says maroon Oct. 15. Adorno says "maroon". Went to see another aduana, and he fixed things up by 11:30. Paid a 19000 bolivian fine for not reporting to the aduana in Oruro, and the aduana at Desagadero was suspended for 10 days for allowing me to enter Bolivia with faulty papers. Off for Puno, but had to wait overnight for the San Pedro ferry.
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P. PEARSON 1955 Oct. 16 Copacabana - Yunguyo - Puno. The number of aduanas, traffic controls, guardia civiles, immigration, vigilancias, etc. in both Bolivia & Peru absolutely unchevable. Their biggest import must be still chain to stretch nerve wire at control stations. Left at Puno gravel pit. Oct. 17 All day getting car ground, shocked, and reclaiming my deposit. Left 5 miles N. Puno. Oct. 18 Lots of vicunas at Huaylleres, but nowhere else, about some we when Carl was there. One band of 3-5. Young still in herds. Stopped for about 2 hours at our turismo-place, but saw & heard none. Left between Sotomoro & Salinas. Oct. 19 Temp. -11° at 5:30 a.m. One brake frozen (from fordng stream shortly before stopping). Removed wheel end built fire under it. Very rough road to crossing then, miralike, hard to Canana. Pased through a couple of lonas-all "annual" flower, no green- but couldn't find a camping place with any vegetation. Stopped between Canana & Atico. No type. The mountains in my graver solitud photos on previous trip are Chakina (tropicus amputa), and the coastal valley photos in Rio Silvan with Nevado Amputa. Oct. 20 Saw a soft crossing the road toward beach yesterday in bare desert, and another trolley north of Atico. At this place there is a cloud topped hill with bushy vegetation (card amos) about a half mile in from the ocean. The path went down a cliff to the rocky shore line and forged along the shore, sometimes getting wet from the spray. Had practically no hair control. South of Atico is a place with large planted cactus, smaller cactus, flowers, and & few shrubs, plena lots of rocks. Looks
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P. PEARSON 1955 Good for Phyllotia. North of Chola is some good foggy loma. Just after you emerge into the sunshine at the north end of it, the vegetation stops. At this point a strong east wind was blowing. A few miles further on a strong west wind was blowing sand down across the road. Put out 1 1/2 bags of traps on two hills of Tillandsia sticking out above almost pure desert. Some lichen around base of hills, then mostly Tillandsia although a few succulents, a few small cacti, and a few flowers. No definite signs of mice although a few burrows plugged with lichen* near the base of one of the hills. Top tracks. Snail shells. No birds seen. These hills are at 4km, 49 9 and 501 S of Lima. *The lichen tend to collect in depressions, hence not plugged. Also, they are probably dropping by foot after arthropods. Found one for dropping with only arthropoda. Oct. 21 Morning foggy. Traps untouched. This stops 12 km. by road S of the Marcona crossroad. Loma vegetation stopped a few miles N of the crossroad and the sun came out slow. Stopped at beach north of Chiriba for cornmut + peban skeletons, then north to our old camp 10 mi N Cariste, mighty little vegetation here. A few Tillandsia (90% dead), a few hair-rot cactus, and lichens. Put out 1 1/2 bags of traps. Found Lh amine skeleton on top of hill. Oct. 22 Nothing in traps. Foot trace. Drive to Lima, then set a bag of traps at 1 mi W Surco (Rodge place) and some rat traps +5 mouse species at 1 mi E San Bartolome (Zuniga st place).
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P. PEARSON 1955 Sept at Chosica. Oct 23 Traps at 1 mi. W Sisco tod 1 mina, 3 R's a.d.m., 6 R's a.m., and 1 [illegible] spring an later, probably by Zungarota. at 1 mi. E San Bartolome, the 5 set traps baited with bacon held 4 Zungarota, 1 not spring. Two of the rats badly eaten. The 5 museum specials baited with corn meal were all spring + empty. This place must be alive with Zungara rats. Shinning and big picking spars, then back to Chosica. Oscolla is about a mile or so below San Bartolome's. Oct 25 "How high can mining go?" by H. R. Cooke, jr., in Mining World [World Mining Section] 44-48, 71. August 1954 talks of a sulfur mine in Chile (Aucanquilecha) 5 mi. S of the Bolivian border and 16 mi. N of Ollagüe, Chile." The mine workings... reach about 20,200 feet in altitude". "Minimum Temperature ... at Aucanquilecha, minus 35° F. The maximum recorded at Aucanquilecha since 1913 is 36° F." Yorata "Specific gravity of 6,300 British Thermal Units per pound -- half that of Intumescence Coal." In Table No. I lists 50 mines above and 5, all in Chile, above 19,000 ft or higher. Lista Curiyaca as no 8. at 18,400; 11 mines 18,000 ft or higher. at Andesba, "... the mine cave, which is 17,500 ft deep, must be near man's living ceiling. Formerly the cave was a thousand feet higher, but the miners could not sleep with thirst and frost nights, so it was mined down to its present state. There the miners may play football often chasing on foot to the mine, walking seven hours, and mining down the mountains."
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P. PEARSON 1955 Oct. 26 Left with Koffkee by train for San Bartolome, thence Zarate. We all walked out about an hour short of Zarate, so left packs and went on to set traps and get water. Put out about 40 traps, mostly along the trail under rocks in the forest. Saw a mouse carrying a mouse, in a rock slide. Mr. Koffkee shot it twice with 22 shot but didn't stop it. Oct. 27 Zarate. Traps held 1 Phyllotia and two and 2 alodon. The forest is open enough in places so that there is dried grass (alodon) and brush (Phyllotis). The forest is on a steep, south-facing slope and contains trees up more than 2 feet DBH. Most coniferous are a big-leafed tree reminiscent of yucares with bigger leaves and with green. 45 cotter quite refining and a smaller tree with shape and foliage of lime oak and bark of modrone. About 3 other species of trees also. The woods are very dry now, but in the thicker parts there is heavy moss canopying the trunks, hanging lichen, and bromeliads. Many of the trees are topped by dried vines (but not [illegible]). In the thicker part of the woods are many big overhanging rocks. Stone walls have been built up under them and along side, forming caves for burials. Some of these have dozens of skeletons in them plus clouds of grubs. Trees > 1 foot DBH have grown up since the walls were made. The floor of the forest is open, leafy, with muck. The Koffkees say that after the rains the floor is a mass of green + flowers and many of the tree crowns are invisible because of vines. Put out traps among the grave walls in forest behind (alone) the camping place and also along the brashly bottom of
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D. P. PEARSON 1955 a cliff above the trail between the forest and the spring to the west of the forest 25+ trafe altogether, common bird. Oct. 28 Two Phyllotus ardinii in the bushy line and 6 in the forest line. Also 1 at the weed place. (Absdon in the forest line. Put out a line of traps in bushy place near upper edge of forest, the brush in clumps 6-12 ft tall, and another line in the gloomiest part of the forest. Dr. Koefke incapacitated early all day by severe rheumatism x One bat flying at dusk and another under the trees after dark. Oct. 29 Nothing caught in the gloomy part of the forest; one mircury-jump in the bushy line. Hunted birds with Mrs. Koefke. Bird fauna is a curious combination of altiplano, bush, + forest species. Moths perotis pentlandi, Cricothos, parrots, wild pigeon, Heliofera + Zaratornis, Zyzolophis, Tropodytes, 8 kinds of hummingbirds, etc. Saw condors twice. The zaratonis are tree-toe feeders + perchers. Song bek- bek-bek-bek-bek getting more rapid at end. Not repeated. Dr. Koefke in bed all day. Put out 25+ traps in woods behind camp. Oct. 30 One Phyllotus ardinii in trap. The woods specimens look darker than the two from the brush west of the forest. Hunted birds to the spring east of forest and both then off to San Bartolomé. 10 hours down, Dr. Koefke proceeding with caution and with great pain, We collected at Zárate 4 Zaratonis and estimated that the total population of the forest was 15 individuals, all females. It is unlikely that the males live or visit at Zárate.