El Salvador field notes, v4500
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1927 P, 23 Los Eses miles, Dept, Chalatenango, Salvador This evening at dusk while we we setting down in one of the barren corn fields near one of the brushy streams Mr. Von Rossem shot a Mexican Brush Oat, Nycterus b. mexicana, [illegible] as it passed over our heads at exactly 4:17 P.M. Specimen No. 12529. February 15, 1927— Today, tomorrow, and perhaps the next day will be [illegible] necessarily represented low in numbers in my serial as I have today, and will tomorrow [illegible] work out other regions for different associations. The four immature Reithrodonmys Nos. 12530 to 12533 inclusive were taken by our house boy while snooping around in the brush near camp. He reported having seen an adult with these young clinging to her. He succeeded in catching these four while the adult and one immature clinging to her escaped. Another Orthogeomys No. 1253H, was taken in a steel trap set in [illegible] a burrow on the east mountain slope among grass, ferns, and