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Myrmal being
1969
journal
123
[2 mi W summit]
15 mi. WNW Puzico, 12000 ft., Depto. Apurimaco, Peru
Sept. 11
6:00 am. We left headquarters and drove her to
our trap site. In my last trap, a small skimmer
placed at* beside a large rock at a crevice hole,
I had a live Marmosa. Perhaps this is an
altitudinal record. Ray caught 1 mouse, a
Phyllotis darwini. Dr. Kofod got 7 mice --
1 Neotomys elbrous, 1 Phyllotis voliviensis, and
5 Phyllotis darwini. Many of these were caught in
lushy areas. There is a little stream with
small somewhat muddy pools in which there
were lots of tadpoles and frogs. We caught
2 frogs and a tadpole. The frogs are medium
sized, dark and reddish on the back. I noticed
the pupils are very tiny and the eyes face forward.
I will try to keep my Marmosa alive for behavioral
studies. At 12:00 noon we put out traps again.
I set 30 snap traps among the rocks and
crushes. Ray set snaps & live traps, and
Dr. Kofod set snaps. There are viscachas
here. Dr. Kofod shot a young male. I
set 3 steel trap around a boulder that
looked like it might house viscachos.
We drove back to headquarters, and on
the way saw two Aplomado Falcons flying
across the grassland. We saw one take
off from a low place, fly about 100 yds., then
the second followed, and they landed at about