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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.