Field notes, v1350
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Myrna Leon 1969 journal 46 July 24 (cont.) Puca Leon Isee, 150+ ft., Depto. Leime, Peru One Mus is generally not heavy enough to trigger the large Sherman's. Obviously the mice are all over the area, and apparently active both day + night. Care None of the traps I set near Salicornia caught mice, although a couple had bait gone. Carol caught 10 Mice + Mus. Pleason caught 1. July 25 The Pearsons & Ray went to the study area. This morning I dissected 21 Mice and took chromosomes from 3 Phyllotis anurus. There were animals that had been kept in captivity for a couple of weeks and were very fatty. Nothing precipitated but there was a cloudy, gelatinous filmy mass floating in the TT for each animal. I plated these, but they were no all on the slides. 7:30pm Went to the study area to collect spiders by their eyeshine. We each had headlamps this time + found more. July 26 5:30 am. Left Puca Leon for Chosica (up the Rimac valley) where we met the Davis' and Manuel Plenge, the anthropologist. We drove up the road past San Mateo to the continental divide 15,806ft at Siclis. From there we drove down some, then turned off to the right and went up to Pomococha, where we are guests of Manuel at his fish +