Brazil field notes, v1503
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Mustangi; Meika A - 1993 journal 40 Hotel Sta. Monica Haliaca/Pe Penedo - RJ mata de planalto, going from 600m (?) to 2700m altitude. There is a museum in the park, with mammals, birds and insects. For small mammals there was a Philander opossum mis-identified as Mamossa cinerea. There were some small rodents unidentified. There were monkeys, Procyon, Nasua, white-lipped and collared peccaries, Hydrochaen's, an agouti paca. The origin of those animals is unsure, they may have been caught in the park or come from other places. Director of the park: Pedro E. C. Melo offered us lodging in the park. We couldn't collect inside the park. Though. Therefore we went to Fazenda da Serra and then Hotel Sta Mônica, properties with forest continuous to the park. See Guilherme and Dona Trudi, Germans that have been living there for 15 yrs and own the Hotel Sta. Monica, offered us to stay at one vacant workers' house, close to the forest. We set up the traps along trails : 10 stations crossing the river close to the hotel, 10 stations along a trail going further away into the forest (towards the park) also crossing that same river; 20 stations further into the