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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 +