Field notes, v1350
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Myrmal Georg 1969 Journal 119 Sept. 7 (cont.) 10 mi. WNW Puguio, 13000 ft. Dept. Ayacucho, Peru our traps. Neither Ray nor I caught anything. D. Koford caught about 7 mice - Phyllotis pictus, Calomys ducille, and Abodon boliviensis, up around the guenua tree. No one caught anything in steel traps. At 11:30am we went back to headquarters. Bill Franklin took us around for a couple of hours and showed us how he is studying vicunas. Most of the work is quantitative, and he has the dynamics of the ranges & intergroup interactions recorded. We drove back up the road and took the turnoff we took yesterday: [diagram] We took the right fork this time. Close to the junction we saw 2 of the large variety of tiuamurs (Tiuamotis pentlandi) (the one we got at Paraceta was Notocerca pentlandi). Dr. Koford has the idea that tuianur go around in groups of 3 - 2 ?? and 1 ?. We only saw 2, however, and couldn't get either one. This may be an altitudinal low for this species. They were in short brush and rocks. The vegetation was fairly sparse + short. We