El Salvador field notes, v4500
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1927 R.15 Los Esesmiles, Dept., Chalatenango, Salvador attract small birds yesterday, while at the edge of the rain forest, he heard a rustle among the leaves and turned to see two weasles pop into an opening. Before he could cover them they were gone like a flash. Today I made a bait set under a log near where he saw them. I also made several other bait sets. The large snap traps which I placed in the small spring streams at an altitude of 7500 feet showed no signs of semiaquatic Oryzomys or dheomys. Also the small snap traps set for shrews were not molested. There were many raccoon tracks in the mud about the springs. A No.1 steel jump trap which had be set there evidently had grabbed a raccoon but the wiry rascal! twisted out. Another larger trap was set with the No.1 for a second attempt to get "Mr. Coon!"