El Salvador field notes, v4501
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10/14/25 October 14, 1925- No rain. (10582) I caught an Oryzomys in a large snap rat trap set along the edge of a little red bank which was about a foot high. This place was under heavy brush and small trees near a corn patch at an elevation of 1000 feet. This female specimen was carrying three 14 m.m. embryos. The ante had eaten her nose pretty badly and also one of her feet. Not far from this place I caught a (10583) Sigmodon by a brush fence. The trap was baited with corn and set in a place where it looked like these rats had been using as a run. At an elevation of 1100 feet on up the mountain side (10584) I caught another Sigmodon under steep lava rock cliff. This female was carrying two-18 m.m. embryos. October 15, 1925- Rained 07 during the night. The traps on the mountain side had nothing. One of the traps in the mine had an immature male (10585) Opossum. His stomach content consisted of insect remains which he probably caught by digging under boards and among the piles of wood in the mine tunnel. He was very poor.