El Salvador field notes, v4501
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8/13/25 stayed around until I left. Hanging by their tail and feet they would shake small branches with their hind feet until the leaves would come tumbling down. One of these males was young and the other [illegible] much older and larger. Frequently the younger would climb up to the older one and apparently careass him, then turn and sling angry threats at me and shake the branches. As I was climbing down a tree from fixing a bait an arboreal mouse passed me going up. There were several young clinging to her. It looked very much like the one I got out of a wrens nest two days ago. (Nyctomys)? This could have been Marmosa. August 14, 1925 - Warm all day. Wind in the N.E. Morain. Later yesterday afternoon I took two blozen mouse traps and set them in a place along the edge of the corn patch where I have been trying to trap pocket mice. Most of the vegetation there was a heavy stemmed broad leafed grass mixed with a few other weeds and calclaws shrubs or vines. I baited the traps by placing corn on the trap near the peddle. Then to get ahead of the ants I left camp as soon as I could see. I had two spiny pocket mice