Field notes, v1522
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Anteaters are fairly common here. Have peckers? The [illegible] banks of the gulley next to camp is riddled with burrows and is a center of bird activity! Nov. 1 Clear, calm overnight, minm 9°, noon very hot, wet-dry bulb at 1:30 71°-42°; 2:30 still 71°, clear, breeze but felt stifling. Benson caught a Weston's jay in thick thicket along creek at 5:30 pm. (in swift trap but it survived overnight for cytoto). He also carped 2 Goldfinch petrus in heavy thicket near creeks, also 2 ozidiae, Anula in 19 large Sherman's at base of the cliff toward birds caught 3 berdeichini and 2 ozidas. Looked for frogs after supper, but only tadpoles in a shallow pond along the road. Full moon, Nov. 2 Night clear. Pulled up traps at 6 am. maybe a Ph. darwini out the grid; see specimen. Then Carol and I finished plant survey on grid. Not most all species of plants except for the bird-nest cactus, an Orestrochilus visited 4 or more of our red yarn markers while we were surveying. This area, like all our study grounded; this one dry cause. Horses nearby. on the area and on various 27° slope There are times of ancient agriculture hills nearby, plus recent plowing on others. No. of hideholes at mouse sites other than regular stations: A3-0, B1-0, B3-3, C8-9, D2-9, D5-9, E4-0, F1-0, F2-9, F4-0, F7-9, G3-1, H4-0, I4-0, J2-9, S4-9, K1-0, L7-1. I'm gathering this data it appears that the mouse sites were near outcrops, not invariably over with hideholes. In other cases there were hideholes beyond the range of the 2.2 meter plots.