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9:30 a.m. 7 Bolomys; at 1 p.m. 5 Bolomys.
Thotd [illegible] Carol saw a leopard on the llama trail but not on the area. Also a fox near the tent, at dusk put 17 steel traps and about 15 small and large skunks in rocky- covered place above camp;
colossoma trees in dust.
Carol found incubating caprimulgid; below freezing every night
Only one darwinii in traps. On girl at 8 a.m.: 6 darwini and
7 Bolomys. Two of the darwinii were new- ones, one with medium
length tail and dark, other short tail and pale. All the Bolomys tagged ones.
Picked up traps at 1 p.m.: 3 unmarked Bolomys and 6 marked
and 1 escaped [illegible] I retract former statement: Both
Phyllotis and Bolomys use loose clumps of polylopsia - but
they seem to prefer grass or cortex or something else mixed
in.
Temperatures under rocks out on floorpa near the largest
rock at 6:30 a.m. (rock sometimes as big as rock and thermo-
counter 2 inches in ground): 5° and 6°C.
oct.17 Tarato
oct.18 "
oct.19 Drove up to Tarato Camp (14,700') for an hour where counted holes at certain stakes when mice was caught: A8-2, B1-2, B7-0, BH-2, C10-2,
D11-2, E6-0, E8-0, F9-2, F13-3, G8-1, G12-2. Climbed up to
the human nest; an adult flew from the cave mouth 11:15 am.
of cave mouth which was still 25 yds away and ground near region and glowed at nearly.
minutes and it did not re-enter. When I entered
cave it appeared again outside. Could see anything in the 2 nests,