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P.S. Diego says Valle Hermosa is much farther east, even
beyond where we hiked, over a pass.
Mar.30 Valle Hermosa. Day clear, warm. Aunts lower line of 15
MS caught 1 baby Chelomys magdalenae, [illegible] 1 Alodora
Loripesili, and some spiny crickets. Their upper line,
12 traps in grass at 32 in prickly bushes, caught 1 Cheloms
1 Auliscomys, 2 also Lorigi (all in bushes) and one
ground tyrant in grass. My lower line caught 3 also
Lorigi; my upper line caught 11 also Lorigi. Many
spiny crickets on both lines.
In the afternoon, sunny, warm, hiked 2 hours
up the valley to where it opens out into a broad,
sparcey vegetated valley with many green scaps,
all looking very alfiflous. Lots of snowbanks around,
some closing the road; there spanning erecks. Saw two
places with two burrows, and left a steel trap at
each for about 2 hrs, but caught nothing. One
of them had big earth cores next to it, at our highest
point, on the edge of the broad valley, on a knoll, were
droppings and sunken runways almost heavily of
Chelomys. No E caviomorph droppings. This must be
maybe 400 m elevation above our campsites. Returned
to camp at 7 pm and reset steel traps that we had
carried up the mountain. 2 more Alodora, a Cheloms,
and some lizards. Night clear, not windy.
Dec.1 Trace of frost in a.m. My lower line had 1 also ad
1 Chelomys (live) [about 10 MS and 6 cage traps]. Aunts's
lower line [17 MS and 1 cage] had 2 baby Cheloms
and 4 also canescens. My upper line, about 6