Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
journal
103
Myrna Leong
1969
5Km. NE Pacasmayo, 200ft., Depto. La Libertad, Peru
Aug. 29 (cont.)
mosquite and brush were growing. I saw a
Turkey vulture, a bitio, a small dove, a vermillion
flycatcher, and some small greyish birds with
white outer tail feathers this afternoon. Tomorrow
we will go to Trujillo to get our gas tank fixed and
the tire that went flat today mended. It was
windy until about 7:00pm tonight when the
wind died to a breeze or occasional gust.
Aug.
9:00 pm Went out to look for geckos up the the dry,
barren, rocky hillside. I found 5 (MAL 355-359) and
Ray got 3. Checked my net a couple of times and
found nothing in it, although I hear bats calling.
Aug. 30
In my mist net this morning was a whiporwill and
something that looks like a seedeater. (MAL 360+361).
I caught an Atrygopus in a pile of old, cobwebby
brush along the fence of mosquite under a large
tree. There was a little hole made through the
brush and I had set the trap there. The area
smelled very ratty. Dr. Koford didn't catch any-
things in his trap or net, and Ray didn't get
anything in his net. I put up the whiporwill+
steamed the seedeater & Atrygopus, and we left at
about 9:00 am for Trujillo. Arrived in Trujillo at
11:30am and ran various errands. Today is some
holiday, however (Festival de Santa Rosa) and we
couldn't get the car fixed. We left Trujillo
at 2:00pm, and [illegible] headed east on the road