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Mt. Cacaguatique, Dept., San Miguel Salvador
Nov., 21, 1925 - Dec., 23, 1925
Heterops
Mt. Cacaguatique spiny-pocket mouse
These mice were found commonly
in the sub-tropical zone and usually
near the small mountain streams.
In this association they were taken in
traps set under [illegible] the edges of rocks,
at the base of banana trees, on brushy
stream banks, or small drifts in the
streams, along dripping rock walls between
which the water ran, and at the waters
edge. No. 10768 was taken in a wild
pineapple fence, along the edge of a
corn field and the coffee. This place was
about two hundred yards from a stream,
at one place where the transition zone
along one of the canyon slopes came to [illegible]
the edge of a down and bordered a
stream for about three hundred yards.
I caught Cacaguatique spiny-pocket mice barely
within the sub-tropical zone. Here not
more than ten feet from the water I set
a trap baited with oatmeal by small
round hole which led back and down
under a cotton log. Within a week this
trap caught four of these mice. Nos. 10897
& 10901 were taken at an altitude of
4000 ft. in dead brush and weeds. This
was probably the highest point in the
immediate region [illegible] where sub-tropical
vegetation was found. Most of the
stomachs examined were empty, but
seed pulp, and plant pulp was what
I found in those containing food.