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D.A. Good
1956
Journal
20
December
(cant')
San Cristobal las Casas, Chiapas
line down across the road. We therefore turned back
to a locality W of San Cristobal (see catalogue) which Dube
had noted on the way in. We reached at ca. 1530. I
walked around for a while looking for borps under bark, in
stumps, etc. but found only 1 Sceloporus (DAG 315) which I
found behind the bark of a pine stump. (The habitat here is
primarily pine forest with a scattering of other species). Having
little luck with the borps, I returned + helped set out traps
+ then helped skin until ca. 1830. Then supper + finish skinning.
Weather this morning cool + drizzly at Benemazabal, Cold +
on + off clean + drizzly at San Cristobal.
San Cristobal to Bodil , Chiapas
21 December
Up 0630 and immediately out to check traps. I caught 1
Reithrodontomys and 2 Peromycus boylei, one of which escaped.
The traps were set in scrub-oak + grass at the edge of the pine
woods described above. Just downslope was a cornfield. The Slope
was 30-45°. I returned to camp ca. 0700 + waited around for
someone to get up which Ed did 0730. I then went out with
him to check his trap line (see journal E Heske for particulars)
0730-0800. He caught 4 P. boylei. After returning to
the car Ed began breakfast + Dube returned from checking
his traps 0815. We caught 11 P. boylei. We then had breakfast,
packed the car, took tissues from some animals that had died
during the night and left 1015. We headed back to San Cristobal
where we bought some food + looked for gas. However, no one in
San Cristobal had Extra (only Nova) so we had to drive all the way