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Myrna Henry
1969
Journal
66
Aug.9 (cont.)
1 Km. N, 12 km. E Paracota, 8500 ft., Depto. Cusco, Peru
up in the brushy, rocky area, beneath bushes
or along an old rocky narrow irrigation
ditch.
Ray set about 20 small shermans
along a rock wall and a bag of about 30 snap
traps on a dry brushy slope facing west. Dr.
Koford set 38 large shermans near where I
set my large shermans, also in bushes and
near some segments of rock wall. I'd also
set up a large mist net for birds or bats.
As I was setting my large shermans I saw
a very small hummingbird, only about 2
inches high and white! There are lizards
here and I have seen at least 3 kinds. We
have pitched the tent up from the road and can
look down the valley until it is covered by
fog.
Dr. Koford shot a small tinamou.
8:00 pm. I went with Dr. Koford to check the net
placed a few fields up the slope. No bats. Dr. Koford
checked his large shermans and had no catch.
Down the slope along rock walls near camp, however,
he had a Phyllotis andium live in a snap trap
and a dead one under a Maguey plant.
August 10
6:00 am. Checked my traps. Out of 70 live traps all I
got was the skin off half a tail, caught in a
large sherman. Dr. Koford caught 2 Phyllotis
andium in his large shermans, and Ray
caught 1 Phyllotis andium in his small shermans