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8/8/25
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of corn and a soft kernel of some
thind in its pouch, I have been
baiting these traps by placing corn
gains on the trap near the tree. The
other specimen was caught in a
hole in a small clay bank
near the trail that lead to the
canyon. Here the jungle was
rather open and rocky. These traps
were baited with corn. This mouse
had 10 Nematodes in its stomach.
they were approximately from 1 in.
to 1/2 in. long. My experience with
these spiny-pocket mice has been many
tripped traps with nothing in them.
They are evidently very fely creatures.
I found these spiny-pocket mice very
hard to make up unless the
specimen had not been dead
long. In some clay mud down
in the canyon I saw some cat
tracks which were probably (Felis
pardialis - ). The trap near the
lake where I caught my first
Opossum (Didelphis mesamericana - )
had another smaller female, she
measured 5-78 mm. in length. In
her pouch were & six 14 m.m. young.
Dr. Miller put them in formalin. The
stomach of this specimen contained
some yellow fruit and some mammal
hair. Higher up on the canyon
ridge I found a small group of
monkeys (Ateles) running themselves.
They dashed off through the trees
when I came within in sight. They
have a grunt something like a pig's