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Abrothrix
Nov. 3- La Primavera. Specimens caught by Anita above the amber cave
and kept until Nov. 4 7 p.m.:
33 g male. testis 11, sv 20; testes, accessories, and penis
weigh 2.1 g; testes alone 0.65g. The contents of the seminal
vesicles is cheesy when extruded, seems to get a little more
rubbery when mixed with minced ?coagulating gland.
36g male. Did not fight with above when put together in a
bucket. testis 11, sv 18mm; Unflexed penis is 24 mm long, the
distal flexure is 9mm; tetes, accessories and penis together weigh 1.9 g;
testes alone weigh 0.6g.
41 g male. Penis 23 mm total, 10mm to the flexure. Testis
10, sv 21. Testes, accessories, and penis weigh 2.5g; vesicular
fluid milky, when mixed with coagulting gland became cheesy but not
rubbery. Both testes together weigh 0.7g.
34g female. vagina open, nipple small, Rt. horn with 2 fetuses, 12mm
bumps, ovary with 8 corpora lutea of different sizes, 4 of them large; left
uterus 2 fetuses, left ovary 5 c.l.
34g female. vagina closed, nipple med-large, milk
expressible, uteri with 4 scars (2 and 2), ovaries with many
CL.,considerable mammary tissue. Entire UG weighs only 0.1g.
December 1- 30 km NNW Pilcanyieu (Rio Pichi-Leufu). Caught 2 Abrothrix, one of
them a juvenile, the other an adult breeding male which was perfused and
the head saved for Noemi de Esperoni.