El Salvador field notes, v4500
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1927 January 26, 27:28 29 30 31 and Feb 1 was spent in getting up to Loessee and waiting for our eq- equipment to get up there which is up on a mountain called Loessee miles that is 8000 ft high Feb 2 1927 We set a trap line up in mountains and in corn field around house which we are staying which is surrounded with corn fields and ditches on both side with running water in them Feb 3, 1927 while up on the mountain looking at traps that we set for mice I noticed the branches of an oak tree moving about 60 ft high and after watching for a while I saw no 15425- jumping from limb to limb here we shot it with 4.10 shot pistol the trees in this forest are covered with a parietic growth that you can hardly see the animals that are in trees move the day before we saw one running along on some fence poles but was gone before we could get a shot at it of through the brush and vines