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D.A. Good
1980
Journal
Cerro Mozotal, Chiapas
December 14
Bird list cont:
(cont)
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Garnet-throated [illegible] Hummingbird
Green-Backed [illegible]
While setting out the traps this afternoon I heard a
whirring noise approaching. It became quite loud and
I soon saw that it was caused by a flock of an unidentified
large species of swift.
While out salamandering this morning I was walking
along a path following a ridge top when I heard a noise
behind me. I turned around and saw a & White-tailed Deer
c.a. 16 m away. We stood and watched each other for several
seconds.
Weather today clear in morning with clouds surrounding
peaks of Mozotal where we were camped. These gradually rose
through the day and by 1330 our campsite was fogged in.
Temperatures warm in the sun, cool to downright cold
in the clouds.
On closer examination of the tree in the Betulaceae, I
think that it is Betula but I am not at all sure.
15 December
Up 6:15. Went out immediately to check traps and caught only
1 Peromyscus boyleii. Dale + Ed had better luck and caught
4 [illegible] between them as well as several other mice. Because
of the poor return on my traps I then went out again and
picked 40 of them up (leaving the twenty I had placed in
supposedly good [illegible] habitat). I then returned to camp
where Ed prepared breakfast. After breakfast (ca.0930) I returned