Brazil field notes, v1503
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Mustrangí, Meika A. 1993 journal 32 E.B. Boracéia-SP inside. A young (very) Proechimys without its front left leg was also found dead in a Tomahawk. A Delomys (probably) was also found dead and half eaten in another Tomahawk. One of the 'tovaqui- nhas' was also found dead, and the Tomahawk 10m away from its original place. One Sherman had one of its walls torn, as if an animal had tried to tear it open at one of the doors, there was no captured animal inside it when we found it. A male and female of Oryzomys were found trapped together in the same Tomahawk. The female was death, but the male seemed fine. Along the forest edge we caught only 2 individuals: 1 Oryzomys and 1 Akodon (out of 15x5 = 75 trap- nights there). Antonio caught 2 Oligoryzomy< in- side his house. Trapping success amounted to 87/135x5 = 13%, quite high, but diversity was lower than expected. We didn't get Marmosops incanus, of which Brea Patterson caught 5 individuals here last year, in the same month! I would like to return in "new moon" and try trapping again. Proechimys is not so common here, as in Ubatuba (Fund. capicóniu) and on São Sebastião Island. Ory- zomys and Delomys are by far the most common animals, according to trapping results.