El Salvador field notes, v4501
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Beyond the small patch of jungle is a piece of pasture land possibly ten acres or more in extent. The terrain of the pasture is unlevelled by lagoon like depressions which are obviously full of water during the rainy season. Grass in this pasture is heavy and coarse, and in the lower places it stands as much as ten feet high while on the higher points it is grazed down to waist high. Here and there throughout the grass are catsclaw bushes and at the west end of the pasture it has killed out the grass and is growing up in an impentrable mass. There are a few large trees in the pasture most of which are dead, and hawks and kites use the tips of the bare limbs as a roosting place or place to perch. Under the grass and in the catsclaw is an excellent harbor for Conepatus, Spilogale, Herpailurus, Sigmodon, and Oryzomyo. A large banana grove borders the pasture on the north. The banana trees in this grove are large and in clumps arranged in long rows. The grove is apparently well kept during the rainy season but at this time of the year there are many high dead weeds between the rows. Dusty stock trails