Field notes, v1525
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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