L/DICKER 1959 Journal Heavy rain during night. Hard Pass - wild. July 16 Catch: Peromyscus (boylii ?) - 5 + Baiomys - 1. While setting traps in evening I shot a jg cotton-tail + Dave got an adult q. We skimmed catch, had lunch & left about 1400. Saw sw. Pumas and corp. Nothing was caught in the grassland. The Peromyscus were in the stone wall, in the brushy areas and in cotton-tail clumps. The Baiomys was along the stone wall also, but there was a lonely border. One rat trap set in the stone wall was spring & dragged about 3 ft. We chatted with a good herder who lives nearby + he said there we jock rabbit with white tails in the area. He also said he knew of only 1 kind of stink animal. In the mountains, he said there were coyote, leones, gatos corral, monos, jaguateras, venados, lobos but no ozoa. He also had never heard of a chichinoco. Shortly beyond camp we began to climb a very steep slope which is the 2nd region ridge (You can see Pizze called off to the E from this camp). Mangantes begin at the base of this ridge. The crest is about 2 miles beyond our camp. The road then enters a meadow with oak, mangantes, etc.. Here we saw Bluebirds (looked like eastern) + dark sparrows. Two miles from the crest the road comes to a small town - La Congoja which has a TV-like antenna towering over it. Just E of town we saw