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D. A. Good
1980
Journal
13 December
(cont)
Cerro Mozotul Chiripas
couple of minutes later with real grinner cables and we [illegible]
tried starting again and this time it worked. We therefore
followed Duke down the mountain and parked just outside
Pintojentela so that we could be sure of catching him on his way
back. We waited there from ca. 1100 to 1530 and were about
to come back up the mountain when he finally appeared. The
three of us then returned to our collecting sites to check the rest
of our traps at ca. 1615. We picked up several more Peromyscus
of both species as well as a species of Neotoma (see journal D.S.
Rogers). We camped at the highest collecting locality and set up
a bat net. However, the fog became so bad we took it down
soon afterward. One of the locals from the morning came by + had supper with us.
Bird species seen today in the Pinus - Betulaceae woods -
- Green Violet-ear - very common and noisy
- Green-throated Mountain-gem - less common
- Rufous-collared Robin
- possibly a species of Solitaire Beard
- Whip-poor-will - one heard at dusk
- Rufous-browed Wren - fairly common and susceptible
to owl immitations.
This list is short because most of the day was spent waiting
for Duke.
The habitat at the 3 collecting localities was as follows:
2450 m locality: much pasture + farmland bordering on
forest. Forest consisting of perhaps 70% Betulaceae and 30%
Pinus with the pines usually towering above the other trees.
Also thick underbrush especially at borders.