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Transcription
1927
P.2
Hacienda Chilata, Dept, Sonsonate, Salvador
side of a narrow trail
which had been cleared
through the brush. The
specimen was lying on
dead leaves on the ground
below. The third Nyctomys was
cought in a trap which I
had set on a dead limb
that lay horizontally through
some vines. The trap with
the rat had fallen down
on some dead trash. The
rat was absolutely destroyed
by ants. Since the trap
had crushed the basal part
of the skull I didn't even
eave the skeleton. Reithrodonomys,
No. 12805, was caught in a
large snap trap trap which
I had set on a limb about
twenty five feet high. Although
the trap had fallen down
among the dead coffee leaves the
ants had found it and had
it nearly ruined before I
arrived. Oryzomys caliginosus, No.
12808 was under a soggy
cotton log in a shady and
dead leaf strewn ravine in
the coffeet. Peromyscus, No. 12812,
was taken in a similar set