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Museum Log
1969
journal
85
Aug. 20
(cont.)
4 mi. SSW Motye, 400 ft., Dept. Lambayeque, Per
and bushes. There isn't much mouse sign
here. The area is dry & brushy & bouldery, and
the hill is prominent in a flat grazing land.
We each put up a mist net -- Dr. Koford
and Ray down at the base of the hill and
mine a ways up. We saw little bats (perhaps
tomapeas) flying at dusk.
8:00pm Went out geckos hunting. The geckos
here are small and fast. We found them
on the ground near rocks as well as on
the rocks & boulders themselves. I caught 4
and Ray got 3. Dr. Koford caught [illegible] 3.
August 21
This morning we each had a little Phyllotomid bat in our
nets. It is a nectar-feeding kind with a long rostrum
and long tongue (MAL 312). Checked our traps.
Ray didn't catch any mice. I had a large
gecko in one of my museum specials set at a
hole that went under a rock. In another trap
placed at a hole in the dirt going beneath a
rock I caught a small immature Phyllotidum
by the tail. Of the 5 geckos I caught, I think
there may be 3 types. There are the small fast
ones that are fairly indistinct as far as coloration &
skin texture is concerned. Then there was one I
got going down a dirt hole. It was larger, had
some rows of large scales & a zebra-striped tail.
The one I caught in the snap trap may be yet