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Freere, H.
1980
2 December (continued)
Quebrada ~5 Km (air) NE Najitos, Piura Prox. Peru
This is a fairly broad valley, bounded by
loose hills and filled w/ low shrubs and trees
and one "farm" at the NE end. We split
into four groups and worked separately,
from ~1000-1145. Saw many Deirodon
guttulatus and collected 5 nice adult
by mouse and with a pellet rifle. I got
one small Tropidurus sp. on a small
wooden coral beside an abandoned
adobe hut a few hundred meters W. of
the farm house. As John Bowlin's
group returned to the cars from
another valley to the E. of this one he
spotted a Callopistes lying in front of
a tunnel, near a small tree, at the
W. upper edge of the valley. Almost
missed it before it went in. I joined
him, and we dug 'til ~1330, a total
of ~7-8 m of trench, ~1m deep and
.5-.7 m wide - difficult digging because
wind blew it in almost as fast as
we shoveled it out. About .5m down
we ran into sea shells, pot shards,
and (?) old goat dung. Also several
skins of Amphibaena occidentalis
~3-5m down, seemingly fresh. Also