Year
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Transcription
Other traps. My steel trap where tho ? Guinea Pig?
or ? Octodon? disappeared down a hole was suspicious.
Sage's 11 MS and 8 SL, all carefully set at holes of
various sizes in dense Mota torcida and baited with
(peanut butter or canned beef liver pate), caught 3 Eligius,
(=Notiomys edwardsi KOs)
4 also fortibus, and 1 unknown genus. Anita's 18-26
and 21 MS, almost all in light soil Mota torcida,
carht 3 Eligus, 5 albo fortibus, and 1 tucos. My mixture
of about 20 MS (1/2 pate and 1/2 peanut butter), 20-26,
ad 10 coy traps (6 of them unbaited along 2 drift fences)
catset of base of Mota torcida, caught 7 Eligius,
5 albo fortibus, and 1 Phyllotis darwini. Total = 174 traps
= 26 Eligus, 19 albo fortibus, 1 tucos, #1 ph. darwini,
and 1 unknown genus. = motion up
The hole was caught in a MS baited with pate
and set part way down and appeared to be an open
two burrow under a Mota torcida bush which was part
of a cluster of a half-dozen Mota torcida bushes
(Phyllisgia) which included also a newo bush, a scraggy
ODINIA yellowwood brush, and a green green Senecio. It was as
dense a cluster of Mota torcida as I have seen. The
fact that the two hole was often implied that it
was not presently occupied by a tucos. Anita caught
ad Sage tried digging it out, but it continued down
like an ordinary two burrow. Anita caught a tucos less
than 50 m. away. The stomach of the unknown genus
contained a lot of white matter, weighed >3 g. The bush,