Mustrangi, Meika A. 1993 journal 48 Faz. Sta. Terezinha, Linhares - ES Atlantic Forest, the largest forest area in the state of Espirito Santo. The area is also impor- tant because of its floristic similarity with the Amazonian forest. This northern part of the state of Espirito Santo plus the southern part of Bahia have been called "Hilera Bahiana" or "mata de tabuleiro"; The RFVRD has facilities for research: lodging, lab, classroom. Graduate students from UNICAMP and UNB develop their Thesis, project, here, and UNICAMP's 1-month field course also takes place here. The RFVRD develops programs to exploit four products and also regenerate disturbed areas of forest (e.g. program for the control of lianas). We arrived at the RFVRD on the 9th of October. We had to wait till Monday to talk to a experienced park ranger who suggested we collected at Faz. Sta. Terezinha. This farm has an area of forest continuous to the Paraju area in the RFVRD, an area of old trees and where we saw agoutis, a cat, a lesser anteater and several "mutums" (big black terrestrial bird). The 120 traps remained baited and opened as the standard procedure for 3 days. There was zero captures on the first night. On the second night we caught a small Rhypidomys on an