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B. Hamilton
1967
Journal
3 Km. SE of Morrope, Dept. Lambayeque, Peru. Elcc. 100:
guly 15 to get an unobstructed shot - I went back to camp and then cut as far west as Morrope. They wanted to see if now was passable from there to Secura (we have heard both stories). While they were gone Ray and I hiked for lizards.
We got several Tropidurus. We think that they would frequently climb trees in their effort to escape. We were quite surprised to discover that we saw several Teid lizards but couldn't
get close enough to catch them (but as Ray had the ground).
We also collected 2 Geckos.
Finally Ray and I went back to camp as our car (and our food) returned.
They said that the road was not passable in our car from Morrope to Secura. Some trucks regularly made the trip as they said the trip would be easy in a 4-wheeled drive vehicle. They said that they were farming an agricultural area with many birds. They brought back a small Pet and turkis woodpecker, an ovenbird, Furnarius sp.
and the same gray-white round flycatcher that I had collected here, Todirodus Eliensis sp. They also had a long (about 1/2 meter) Taig lizard that was quite blue underneath.
About 1500 we left for Chiclayo where we did some shopping and picked up the mail that had finally arrived. We were supposed to pick up the hammer of Colin Doddle's revolver which was being despatched but it was not ready yet. After this we headed N on Pan American Highway. About 16:30 we turned off highway at site with many small shrubs and trees,