El Salvador field notes, v4500
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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