El Salvador field notes, v4500
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Feb 6, 1927 I skinned no 12452 and salted it and put up 2 Heteromye & a peromyscus that was caught up in the Oak Rain forest. then at night I took my light and Hunted up in mountains but never saw any thing. the Clouds began to come down about 11 o clock so I returned to the house. Feb 7, 1927 I caught a Coon in a trap out it got away it pulled out of a no 2 jump trap that I had set in a large mountain spring that has a very thick growth of bushes & ferns around it. no 12478 was caught in a trap that was baited with a robin and set under a large log in dense bushes & ferns up in Oak Rain forest at 800ft alt. these mammale had been taking mice out of traps and eating them, We have noticed several traps that had only some hair in them and all bloody while they had evidently had eaten them and we saw their tracks in soft dirt and in the trails in the dust. this one specimen no 12478 was very fat when I skinned it which showe that they feed very well up in these forests