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1927
P.H.
San Jose del Sacare, Sept., Chalatenango, Salvador.
dragged back into the rocks, I
did not find the usual signs
of Neotoma. Late in the afternoon
I returned to the cliff with
snap traps both large and small
to give the place a real test
as to its mammalian fauna.
I saw three squirrel nests in
the oaks today.
March 12, 1927- The traps
that were set along the rocky
ledged cliff as possible sets for
Neotoma, had one Otolymys this
morning. Another trap had
Peromyscus, No. 12701. The ants had
eaten the skin so badly that I
could not put it up, therefore made
a skeleton of it. It is obviously the
Pacific coast lowland form.
The female Peromyscus, No. 12700, was
cought within thirty feet of where
I caught a male of that species
yesterday. This is apparently a
rare species in this locality.
The two Peromyscus, Nos. 12707 and 12708
were caught just inside of the
Sonoran zone in a dry stream bed
which flows down had sub-tropical
vegetation. The two Sciurus, Nos. 12709