D.A. Good 1980 Journal Playa Escondida, Veracruz 27 December (cont) Saw a small gray squirrel with rusty belly + sides. Species unknown. I was witness to an accipiter (?) (Probably Cooper's Hawk) perched in a tree being chased at by a beastel. The Cooper's Hawk eventually flew off with the beastel in hot pursuit. Howler Monkeys quite noisy toward evening. Playa Escondida to Catemaco, Veracruz. 28 December Up 0745. Duke + Ed went out immediately to check traps and I started to pack the truck. Ed + Duke returned 0915 with a total of 20 Heteromyis and 3 Peromyscus mexicanus. We then finished packing the car and went to have breakfast, 1015. We ate with 3 students from Austin, Tx who arrived while we were packing. We left 1130 and drove to Catemaco which we reached 1230. We checked into a hotel and went shopping and then returned to the hotel and shinned mice until 1645 at which time we went out to set traps SE of Catemaco in some mature forest Duke had noticed on the way in. (However, when he dropped Ed + me off there (there was no place on the road to stop) we found that the forest was merely one big coffee plantation. We therefore walked across the road to some second-growth woods. We returned to the hotel ca. 1830, had supper + prepared specimens for the rest of the evening.