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Pearson
1979
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aulestronys microphora
nov. 18 In Veracruza. On the grid caught a 94-g F that looked fat, preg?
another F caught near camp had an open vagina. In a cage it
ate dandelion, in preference to carrot, cactus, and large grub.
ate Clifffs vines and strawberry but may not have eaten them.
aceras califolia
nov. 19 Captive did not eat Cadillo or strawberry, but did eat, Cachis de
Osmorhiza lentus,
Calira, Osmothera, inia, and lily leaves and stem. Did not
eat piloree.
nov. 20 In Veracruza
Described juveniles 22 g, S, teeth 4, SV 3, stomach green.
F no 4 from the grid was wounded in traps. Pregnant (?) and
lactating (#5860), skeleton
an adult F on the grid was released on a
climbing be 6" vine. It promptly ran up the
trunk to about 10 ft, stopped to groom, then went
even higher, even out onto smaller branches, then
grounded some more for at least 5 minutes, then
came down to the ground and ran off (on top of a
small log). It seemed perfectly at ease up in the
tree. While up there a Kingbird-sized fly
catcher with pale grey breast approached quite close
and seemed interested.
Three we have seen shredded dandelion flowers
similar to those handled by captive Aulestronyx,
The captive eats Cacho de Calira leaves but not Cadillo leaves,
maybe eats seeds of Cadillo? Captive ate at least one gustatory blob
fungus growing on a branch, but did not eat a big morel fungus.
nov. 24 Rio Lujun mangaro. Captive at flowers of Esfina Negra
(Coletra?). At storm of caledonia (toga-toga) but avoided flower.