El Salvador field notes, v4500
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1927 P.8 Los Esesmiles, Dept, Chalatenango, Salvador and in some of the gulches on the north slopes water dripped from the leaves above. At 11:30 A.M. today clouds of heavy mist commenced to pass through the trees on the higher points and by 2:30 P.M. they were down the mountain side at an elevation of 7000 feet. Day before yesterday we strung traps from the edge of the oak spin forest well into the region vacated by ferns and underbrush. A small snap trap set under a semirotten log among ferns and dense brush caught a Reithrodonomys, No. 12429. The trap was set on some dead moss by a little round hole led back further Scotingmys No. 12430, was caught under a rotton log in a dense patch of ferns. Another, No. 12431, was caught at the base of a small tree in the ferns. There were several small holes that led back under some dead fern leaves and trash at the base of this tree and it was by one of these holes that I set the trap. A Heteromys No. 12432 was caught in a