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Rio San Miguel, 13°25'N. Dept., San Miguel
Feb, 2, 1926 - Feb, 21, 1926
Skunk- Zorillo
This species was found commonly in the Rio San Miguel region 13°25' N. No. 11053 was shot at night by one of our men, and skull No. 11072 was I found in a carreta trail that led through some jungle pasture land. No. 19087 was caught in a trap set in a bunch of tall green grass in the old weedy bean patch near Rio San Miguel. Metachrops No. 11075 was caught in the same trap. Under this grass I had six or seven large snap traps set for Sigmodon. I frequently found my specimens partly eaten when I would return in the morning. And it was for this reason that I made the steel trap set, When I made the set I baited it with a gros-billed Ani but when the skunk was caught there were only a few feathers around. In the main cowtrail that led through the old weedy bean patch near Rio San Miguel I set two No. 0 steel traps and [illegible] and baited them with a small Paraguile. Here I caught Nos. 11138, 11148, and 11173. The morning that No. 11148 was in the traps the familiar odour of a skunk came to my nostrils when I was climbing over the pole gate into the old bean patch.