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Miguel Keeg
1969
Journal
96
Aug. 26 (wt.) 35 mi. WNW Cajamarca, 6000 ft., Depto. Cajamarca, Peru.
second creek where the vegetation was thick and wet
and the trap site steep with leaves covering
the mossy rocks and rotten logs. In the line
of large Sherman's that I left out for the 2nd night
I had 2 live animals - one an Oryzomy-type
under a log, and the other an Akodon in
a hollow tree stump. On my 22 snap traps
I caught 2 Akodon under logs, and maybe
another kind of Oryzomy, also under a log.
Dr. Hoford caught 3 Oryzomy types and Ray
cought none. We will prepare specimens, then
break camp and move up to the top.
3:00pm. We left our campsite and started up the
road. It was still rocky and hard going. It had
rained off and on all afternoon. As we got higher,
the road got muddier, and we had trouble in a few
spots and had to push. We averaged only about 3 mph.
The habitat remained much the same for a long
time. There were scattered fields or corrals, but
largely uninhabited. We reached a fork in
the road and took the left hand road, because
the one to the right looked like it went up to a
house. This was at about 7000 ft. The slopes
became brushier and grassier and we rose out
of the jungle vegetation to more cleared areas and
more cultivation. We stopped at a shack and
asked a man if we were on the right road.