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D.A. Good
1960
Journal
Lowland Chipus
December
(cont)
was, in fact, no way to get to Pinedete, so we drove back
out to the lowlands at Huixtla and since it was too late
to find a highland collecting site (it was ca. 1600), we drove
to a lowland site also known to Blake (15.5 mi. SE by
road, Mapustepes, 50 m., Chipus) and set out 135 Sherman
traps. We had planned to spend the night camping there
but we were warned by a local that we were likely to be
set upon by "hombres malos" if we did so. We therefore drove
back to Huixtla and spent the night in a hotel. Habitat
at the above collecting locality was disturbed through
moderately mature tropical forest, the dominant species of
which I could not identify although there was a lot of Cecropia
throughout. Many of the large trees were over 1 m. DBH.
Huixtla, Chipus to Cerro Mozotal, Chipus
12 December
Up 0600 and back to Mapustepes collecting site where we
picked up the traps. We caught 6 Peromyscus gymnotta
(see Journal D.S.Rogers for particulars). We then drove back
to Huixtla and N on road to Motogentle de Mendoza. After
wandering around for a while trying to find the road up
to Cerro Mozotal where Blake needed to collect Voternyps, we
finally found it (it is a minor street going out the back of
Motogentle) and started up the mountain — in the late
morning and got to the top by early afternoon. We then
had some lunch and spent the rest of the day afternoon
setting out 180 Sherman traps in 3 places (see journal