Myrial Lewis 1969 journal 112 Sept. 4 (cont.) 20 Km. N., 6 Km. W Chanca, 800ft., Defts. Lima, Peru to Dr. Koford there is much less sign of viscacha now than there was 2 years ago here. Ray was the only one to see a viscacha, but only managed to wound it. I put up a bat net at a narrow part in the valley a little ways up. I hear bats. 9:00 pm. Dr Koford and I went gecko hunting. We walked up the canyon and looked among the rocks and cactus. We didn't see any until just as we were getting back to camp, when I saw one run near where I was walking. It is rocky soil of course sand, blackened by the little lichen growing on it. There was some cactus nearby. The gi[illegible] (CMAL 386) is about 2in. S-V, and a dark brown mottled with white. Tomorrow we will try to take care of some business in Lima, then head further south. Sept. 5 7:00am. I checked my net and 2 steel traps. Nothing in the net, but in one of my steel traps was a viscacha! Apparently it got in last night and was caught by the right forefoot. (which is broken) Then some fox(a skunk perhaps) must have gotten to it. The left rear leg had been gnawed on and the meat eaten. The left flank had the hair stripped already and the viscacha was dead, though still warm. I am making a complete skeleton of it. No one else caught anything. We left for Lima at 9:00am.