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September 11, 1925- On the rocky lake shore in the edge of the jungles I caught a female blue-tailed rat (10442) and a spiny pocket mouse.
September 12, 1925- At the east end of Lake Omega is a large small island which is about one acre. There is one natives hut on the island. Part of the place is [illegible] a ripened corn patch and in other places where there are too many rocks for cultivation there is tall bunch grass while around the lakes edge there are some large trees and much shrubery. Today (10446) I caught two Sigmodons in the tall grass. No. 10448 was caught in a steel trap in the daytime while I was setting the other traps. These cotton rats seem to be quite abundant on the island. One (10447) of the natives brought me a white-toed blue rat which they caught in their hut. The specimen is apparently quite young. During the afternoon a Boy came in and said he saw an opossum that morning while chopping wood. He said it was in a tree deer camp so I went with (10449) him and located a porcupine in a tree that was full of vines. She was lying on a horizontal limb close to some heavy vines. During the evening a native brought in another Porcupine which he shot (10450) just over the ridge from where I shot the female.