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Normal Leng
1969
Journal
90
35 mi. WNW Cajamarca, 6000 ft., Depts. Cajamarca, Peru.
Aug.24(cat.) the one caught at our last locality. Nothing
in mine or Rupp's nets.
8:30am. I have hiked horizontally across a
steep slope along what is probably a cow trail.
The vegetation is extremely thick. There are roots
& branches hanging down & all sort of vines
and ferns on the ground. I've come to a
large waterfall. Heard tinamous this morning.
Some of their calls are 2-parted whistle (low -)
and some are 3-parted ('--'). The jungle is
very wet, and I suspect it is always like this.
There are scattered clouds in the sky and a
slight wind. Last night it remained fairly
warm & rainless, though windy. Dr. Koford checked
his traps and caught 2 large rats, probably Oryzomys.
One is reddish & the other, possibly a juvenile of the
same species, is grey. They were caught in a log
and within the exposed roots at a beech tree
trunk. Dr. Koford talked to the man that lives
near the Hacienda Saulis. Apparently this road goes
up over the mountain, where one can get to either
Cajamarca or Chepen. The men also said there were
bears (probably speckled bear) and leones (jaguarundi?)
in the forests here. We will trap for bats around the houses
later on this afternoon. Dr. Koford had 2
miss mice in the remainder of his traps - an
Alcedon and another kind of Oryzomys.