Myrmel lewis 1969 Journal 20 July 5 (cont.) Papa Leon tree, 150+ ft., Depto. Lima, Peru differs from L. damicus in being very jumpy. Their tails are very fragile. Dr. Pearson held one by the middle of the tail and at the skin slipped off. Ray held the other by the tip & the skin skipped out. This afternoon we went through about 25 burning owl pellets, counting scorpion claws & stingers. We found 86 pair of claws and 50 stingers. Perhaps the owls tend to eat the scorpion head-on and bite off the stinger part. Also found are lots of exoskeletons of beetles & other insects and some tiny reptilian bones, probably of geckos. The pellets are in a matrix of dirt, some with green moss still on it. Owls probably ingest quite a bit of dirt. 3:30 pm. We drove a short ways south of here and set traps at the beach 7 km. SSE Chilca. There were big "highways" of both larger & small rodent tracks, going from weed patches & patches of Distichlis unto the sand. I set about 25 snap traps in the weeds and in the sand near vegetation. Ray set snap traps close to the ocean, and Dr. Pearson set 9 small shermans in a cotton field. Mrs. Pearson found the skull of Rattus. There are grey gulls, snowy plovers, some kind of coot, 7-colored bird, and others. Lizards were very abundant in the vegetation.