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Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
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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