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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