Mynal Leery 1969 journal 47 July 26 (cont.) Pomacocha, Yauli Valley, 14,212 ft., Depto. Junin, Peru gun club lodge. It is by the edge of a lake. The surrounding rocky hills have predominantly lunch grass. The soil is hard. There is a lot of tiny vegetation growing close to the ground. It is very cold here and today the wind is blowing hard. Manuel shot a flycatcher that was hopping around at the edge of the lake catching insects (taking the pipet niche). At 4:00 I started up the hill near the lodge and set about 30 small shermans in lunch grass, brush, but mostly near the rocks in holes I may have found. Really good habitat + fresh sign was rare. 8:00 pm returned to the lodge to find Ray had shot a viscacha and was skinning it. It is a rodent that looks amazingly like a large brush rabbit. The fur is thicker & fluffier, and the bushy tail is long with long hairs. 8:30pm. Mrs. Pearson checked the large Sherman live set around the lodge and had a live Phyllotis darwini posticalis. Perhaps most of the mice are near here. Ray set small shermans near rock piles, and Dr. Pearson set snap traps along the hill. Carl did too, but higher up, probably partly paralleling mine, which makes an arch up the hill.