1927 P.12 Los Esesmiles, Dept., Chalatenango, Salvador No. 12431 yesterday. Peromyscus Nos. 12459 and 12465, and Heteromys Nos. 12460, 12463, and 12464 were taken in the same region. Another Sciurus deppei was shot in the oak rain forest today when it was startled from under the ferns and started up a tree. Today I set seven large snap traps in the water where a spring seeped out at an elevation of 7500 feet. At one time this had been a region densely vegetated by ferns oaks and other plants characteristic of the north humid slopes. Also four small snap traps were set in the ferns of a shady nook for shrews. Yesterday I set two snap traps in a small native hut at [illegible] 7500 feet. One which had been set on a pole near the roof had a Reithrodontomys No. 12453. Today I had to remove! the traps for a native prowling near by! saw me enter the hut.