Field notes, v1522
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the two burrow presumably occupied by the baby abrocoma. Also also get a Galeomys along a wall at the abandoned hut 140 yds west of the grid. It had greenish, yellowish pellets in its stomach. Hidehole stations with mice but not covered in our regular grid vegetation analysis: A2-1, A5-7, A6-1, A8-4, A9-1, B4-3, B6-1, B10-2, C5-1, C10-2, D5-2, E6-3, E7-2*, E10-2 F1-1, F2-2, F8-1, G2-1, G3-4, H10-2, I1-2, I5-4. Did plant census 9:30 to 11:30, two analyses, and hidehole count, then home, arriving Tarata about 5 p.m. Oct. 25 Captures Elegmodonts are completely gentle, easily handled, at pleasure of Lepidophyllum rigidum. Card estrous lived harmoniously in same trap and cage. Bipedal stance looks like Dipsos or Peropethus, sometimes a bipedal jump, but mostly more like Galeomys. Galeomys was completely docile, almost plastic in cage. Never endangering x Oct. 26 Drove with Carl + Beaumont to Yarata camp. This overcast at Tarata and at Yarata camp. Field character for distinguishing Galeomys from Rh. suthi: Galeomys has wide furry foot, white upper cheeks, fatter tail not long. Scats from 1 mi. SW Anconico: (not counting snake skins found by Sandy): Scats from 1/2 mi. W Chokofola: 6 scats in one collection contained four and two bones, no man or bird bones. 11 scats from Anconica -> Galeomys drills, 3 larger mice of at least 2 spp; and at least one bird and a scorpion/pincer.