El Salvador field notes, v4500
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1927 P.27 Los Esesmiles, Dept., Chalatenango, Salvador February 20, 1927 - Two Urocynos were added to the collection today. No. 12562 was shot by G.T.S. this morning while removing his trapline and No. 12563 was brought into camp alive by a native boy. a Mephitis, No. 12564 with very interesting markings was caught by me, where I had a steel trap set in a small round hole among the ferns, brush and grass on the east mountain slope. This was not more than one hundred yards from where I had a gopher eaten by some predatory animal. It was either last night or the night before that the gopher was destroyed. The trap that had the Mephitis had been setting for several days. My first Rheonky No. 12565 was taken today in the little mountain stream in the rain forest on the north slope. This was set so that main current passed under and over the peddle or trip of the big snap trap which was used. The specimen had apparently been carried off by a bird, for the stomach and body cavity was so badly decomposed that I could not determine stomach.