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untagged adult male olivaceus; Trap #20 untagged male
olivaceus sexually immature; Trap #30 a smallish female
olivaceus with open vagina. This makes a total of at
least 5 mice on the 1-ha island: 4 olivaceus and 1
longipilis. Two of them were tagged on the first day,
one olivaceus recaptured 50 yards away, but neither of
the tagged mice was recaptured in the final two
trapping sessions.
Also picked up the 12 small Shermans on the way
back to the car. They held one more Ako olivaceus that
I overlooked on the morning check.
Then drove to the main trapping area 4.7 km NE of
the Termas de Puyehue road fork and checked the Museum
Special traps that we had set on the road shoulder.
Anita's held 2 olivaceus and 1 longipilis. Mine held
nothing. My 10 cage traps held nothing either. Anita
set 20 more Museum Specials back in the woods. These
are in addition to her original line of 34 Shermans in
the woods and 20 Museum Specials along the road. Then
we cut a short trail back into a big clump of dead
quila that looked like it had been dead for at least 2
years. There was also some 1-year blooming big quila
there also. Underneath the dead-dead clump was lots of
rich mulch a rotten log, but no sprouts or seeds. I
set 10 Shermans there in an area of only 15 X 15 ft.
George Vallerini drove past while we were setting
traps along the road, on his way to Valdivia to meet
Patricia. Home at 8 pm. No rain all day, mostly sunny.
November 13- Aguas Calientes, Chile. Morning overcast.
Various trap lines in the morning: Milton and Freddy in
their 170? traps had 2 Ako olivaceus. My 10 Shermans in
the "dead" bamboo clump had nothing. My 10? cage traps
along the road had 1 Ako longi; my 2 cage traps along
the road had nothing. Anita's 20 and my 15? Museum
Specials along the edge of the road at 4.7 km NE had 7
Ako olivaceus, 4 Ako longi, 1 Auliscomys, and 2
Oryzomys.
We are both being bitten by leeches, probably along
this ditch.
Another unusual feature of trapping around here is
the abundance of very small flour beetles robbing the
rolled oats in the Sherman traps, especially those set
around the bloomed quila. Are they part of the bamboo
seed cycle?
Started raining after lunch, sometimes hard. We
all drove up to the ski lodge at Antillanca through
quila, macrostachya, culeou, and finally montana at the
lodge. This does not include the culeou-like species in
the sphagnum bog. The montana is definitely knobby-
jointed and numerous culms are zig-zaggy. A km or so
below the lodge is a grassy airstrip? with Chelemys-
sized burrows in it and a few small earth cores; also