Field notes, v1350
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Myrna Long 1969 Journal 93 Aug. 25 (cont.) 35 mi. WNW Cajamarca, 6000 ft., Depto. Cajamarca, Peru colored (grayish tan) pair of birds with long straight bills. They were woodpeckers of some sort and were pecking at some branches of a tree. I also saw a pair of very large, hawk-sized birds that were black with some white + red horizontal stripes on their tails. Ray shot a couple of birds this morning - one fluorescent green with brownish head and goldish chin, and one russet brown with yellow cap feathers. The birds here are very colorful but often are difficult to see. Ray got 1 mouse in his traps last night - an Oryzoromys-type animal. Dr. Koford got another vampire bat, a hummingbird, and 4 of the Oryzoromys-type rats (1 alive). I took the large box of folding thermos about 3/4 mile up the road, where a second creek crosses the road. Here it was very jingley and moist. I wanted to climb up the slope to where the forest looked virgin. I started climbing up along where the gushing little stream was going, but soon realized I couldn't get much more than 100 ft. up. The vegetation was very thick with ferns, trees, prickly, large-leaved plants, [illegible] vines, and lots of rotten logs. Mosses were growing everywhere, and the wet humus + leaf litter was very deep. After stepping through a few rotted logs, I decided to concentrate my traps closer