El Salvador field notes, v4500
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1927 P.3 San Jose del Sacare, Dept, Chalatenango, Salvador of the small streams that drained off to the north. Several traps were set were set in heavy green grasses along the stream courses, and others were set under bunches of partly dead grass far back from the stream where there were some evidences of small mice. In the Sonoran zone among the oaks and pines I made several sets for Peromyscus in holes and under logs. Seven large snap traps were set in oaks and in holes at the base of oak trees in hopes of catching a Glaucomys, about 11:30 A.M. I turned to the south and passed out of a grove of pines into scrub oak, brush, grass and steep rocky slopes. I crawled and climbed along those steep slopes to set the last three large snap traps which I had in my bag. In many places, when trying to climb the cliff, I found it necessary to climb small oak trees to get up the face. In the cracks and crevices I found rat droppings that resembled those of Neotoma, but except for some grass and a few weeds