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Miguel Leng
1969
journal
48
July 27
Pomacocha, Yauli Valley, 14212 ft., Sept. Junin, Peru
6:00am Checked our traps. I caught 3 mice:
an Akodon boliviensis in some dried bunch grass,
a Phyllotis darwini posticalis in a little dug beneath
a large rock, and a Calomys lucillus in a
hole between some green vegetation & a concrete wall.
Carol caught 3 Akodon in snap traps, Dr.
Pearson caught 1 Akodon + 1 Calomys in
snap traps, Ray got 3 mice, the same as mine,
and Mrs. Pearson caught [illegible] a Calomys. At
8:00 am Carol, Ray, & I went to the other side
of the lake where Ray shot the viscacha yesterday.
I had the rifle, and finally one appeared, probably to
sun itself on a rock. Unfortunately, it seems I
missed, and it ran somewhat erratically between the
rocks & out of sight. We waited for about 15 minute,
then searched the area for the possible body. No
success. The dead animals caught will be put up
and the live ones taken back to Papa Leon XIII.
for chromosome work — especially the Akodon.
Plans are now for Carol, Ray, & I to go to Huancayo
this afternoon somehow, and somehow get back
to Papa Leon tomorrow.
We overturned a boat in back of the lodge and
canught [sic] a Neotomys esibriosus [sic] and got 4
frogs under a metal plank.
1:00 pm Ray, Carol, & I took a collector to
Huancayo. Arrived at about 3:00 pm.