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lower carib spring brush as in Berenice altiplano.
Some mouse had been eating acacia seeds.
Dec.12 Captives tend to be soft to themselves, strictly
vegetarian (except for 1 of the 8 captives), ate apple,
oatmeal, and various grasses from the backyard.
Preferred feed seemed to be green, grain seed-beads.
They cut twigs off of cypress, but I don't know
whether they ate any. They did not eat the bark.
The two pairs of pairs in captivity were 8-9
adult pairs; the others mostly preg. 9-9.
Dec 14 Cerro Secco. Caught a juvenile in road scre
in a Sherman with rolled oats. Baccharis, Palo
Pichi, neeo, Secvio.
Both captives when they woke up started eating green
seed heads of acacia, Colletia, Secvio, Baccharis, apple,
and grasses were available. During the night they ate
all their apple.
Dec.16 To the top of Cataldo with the Warren. Up the
3-stage orange chairlift to Punta Piranosa (2100 m),
then