Field notes, v1522
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Pleasure 1971 Aug 18 Papa Leon Tree, Dept - of Lima. Left Lima about 3:30pm after 3 days of stupid negotiations re. a "fianza" for the car so we can go to Chilo etc. Numerous conferences with auto club, bourse etc. Finally arranged a guarantee with Banco Popular (200,000 soles). Left Bob Jones in - numbered dolphin & seal stable with Batacero's (700 caillons) for packing and shipping. Teo with Manuel Perez yesterday. He says it has been a wet winter. Camped in the canyon above Papa Leon Tree. Lots of green. Numerous small moths flying at dusk, numerous big Helminth moths, leaf crickets, saw fots, probably the larger one, who was squeaking up to about 50 feet. Saw night howler. Drizzle continuous; didn't see the sun once in 3 days in Lima. White moths feeding on tobacco. Carol saw humming Aug 19 Wet drizzle all or most of night; plastic bowls left out had several tablespoons of water in each. Heard barn owl during night. Drip off car collected over one bowl (2 cups) of water in 30 minutes. Drove to the study area south of Chilo at 10:30, wee drizzle most of way. The ground on study area was quite wet, damp down to more than 4 miles. Rope or something had wandered over much of the area. Garden #1 of weighed plants was near a disturbed area, and I'm not sure we found it but weighed plants anyhow.