normal keeg 1969 journal 118 Pampa de Galeras, 4000 meters, Dept. Ayacucho, Peru Sept. 8 (cont.) more sign than the area where I put my first traps. The mixture of boulders and smaller rocks + brush provides a lot of shelter for large & small animals alike. Droppings the size of Mus droppings to the size of very large carnivores were under rocks & boulders. I set only 5 snares + 7 live traps in this area since Dr. Koford had been there earlier & set all his snap traps there. In the base of a hollowed Queña tree I set a small steel trap. In this hollow were very large carnivore droppings. I set 12 snap traps on the other side of the hill where the habitat was not unlike where I set my first group of traps. The sign was much sparser there. Dr. Koford set steel traps beneath large boulders where there was large carnivore sign near the trees. Evidently the hill supports a great diversity of mammal forms. It, too, however, is grazed, as is the whole pampa line. There are goats, burros, horses, sheep, alpaca, vicuña, llama, and cattle grazing heavily in this whole region. It was windy today, but tonight has calmed down, though it is fairly cold. Sept. 9 Dr. Koford heard birds calling very early this morning. Perhaps they are turimones. Checked