Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
Myrna Lee
1969
Journal
64
Aug. 8
(cont.)
6 mi. WSW Cabal Tunnel, 13000ft., Dept. Ancash, Peru
hay (looked like a haystack). Two more Alcedo
were caught, each under a boulder near grass.
None were caught at the lower part of my triploid.
I suspect the viscacha are pretty much taking over
that area. Apparently both Restonys and Akodon
are active diurnally & nocturnally. Ray set
small plumas in bunch grass + rocks along the stream &
captured 2 Calymys perenius and 1 Alcedo.
12:30 pm We broke camp and drove towards Huaros,
12:30pm arriving at about 3:00 pm. There we
did some shopping and left on the road towards
Cosma. We reached Callan pass at about
6:30 p.m., and drove about 1 mile past the
summit, where we are camping off the road.
2 km S, 11 km W Huaros, 13000ft., Ancash, Peru
Callan, Peru
6:40 pm. I set about 30 snap traps along a
rocky, bouldery area just down from the road.
As I was setting my last trap I heard a trap
gong, then heard the trap being pulled along the
rock. I went back to the trap and found a
Phyllotis audium caught by the tail.
9:00 pm. Checked my traps and found 3 mice.
Two are smallish & gray with relatively short
tail, probably Phyllotis pictus. Under a
large rock shelf I caught a very large
female Phyllotis - maybe Otomys magiste?
My luck may be due to the bait I am using.