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Myrna Leary
1969
journal
12
Sept. 10 (cont.)
10 mi. WNW Puguio, Depto. Ayacucho, Peru
diurnal. Maybe that explains why so many of my
traps set in places where there ~~were~~ fresh
droppings were empty. The pictus were
caught fairly close to each other. Perhaps
the boliviensis & pictus have separate territories
as well as being active different times of
the 24 hr. day. They are about the same
size, but ~boliviensis~ has a shorter tail,
seemingly more contrastingly colored, furry
rusty colored ears with a little white at the
base, darker soles of the feet, smaller ears,
and a darker general ~~p~~ pelage becoming
rusty ~~at~~ at the back. At 8:00am when
I got back to camp I saw a boliviensis
run through the colon, stop near a
rock, then run to a rock wall where
it climbed up about 2 1/2 feet into a
crevise. Most of the traps I had set
last night caught animals at ground
level. Perhaps the boliviensis can climb
whereas pictus tends to stay closer to
the ground. Ray caught nothing, but
shot 2 finches and a flycatcher. Dr. Kidford
shot a hummer, and caught 6 pictus and
1 boliviensis. I set about 40 small &
large Sherman's around the rock walls this
morning. The red sipses were calling