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Greene, H.
1980
27 November (continued)
a little suspicious that my two occipitalis are males and the three "koepcherum" females. Killed and preserved all at 2100. Ceno de la Vieja is a strange place - like a S.W. U.S. mesa bajada, complete w/ columnar cacti. The vista from it is very barren soil (sandy) w/ numerous evenly (+/-) scattered mesquite(?) trees.
Here and there are large cattle tanks surrounded by cultivated fields, some sort of palms, and adobe houses.
Saw two caracasas (?) on the way here. Made it back to Chiclayo just before dark and had a big Thanksgiving dinner of fish for me and steak for Mark at the Rova - our 11th day in Peru and the first to collect lizards! Informed after supper that SeƱor Gustav del Solar, local ranch owner sympathetic to American scientist, will return tomorrow night from Zana. (Can used < 1/2 tank to go approx 200km - I put 3/4 tank in before leaving, and it cost S/. 2000.)