Field notes, v1524
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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,