Catalogue and species accounts, v1302
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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