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Mymmal Leery
1969
journal
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2 mi. N Casapalca, 14,400 ft., Depto. Lima, Peru
July 8 (cont.) in talus and bunch grass, and I trapped up
a rocky, bunch grassy, & bushy gulley, when
soft cementish sludge had poured over from the
mining gory or above us. I saw lots of good
places for mice under rocks and around the
bunch grass and along the bottoms of the side of
the gulley. I found a mummified baby bird in
a small slit (4in x 2in) in the side of the
gulley. Some of the thin crevices had bird
droppings. Some mouse droppings were seen, too.
The locality will again be 2 mi. SW Casapalca, 13,300 ft.,
Depto. Lima, Peru. Pearson and I will do the last
of the mice caught last night tonight.
July 9 We broke camp and checked our traps. Carol had set 15
small Sherman and 12 snap traps in a repeat of Ray's
last line. She caught 1 Phyllotis darwini postcalis
in a snap trap. Pearson - I caught nothing in
our lines, but Ray caught 8 animals: 4 P. darwin
postcalis, 3 and 4 Calomys sorellus (1 dead).
This is just 100 yds. up from where we had trapped
the night, yet the habitat was much rockier
with mostly bunch grass instead of lupine & Senecio.
Ray's slope was very rocky.
The plan now is to do a study of Tillandsia and Mues
at the locality 8 mi. SE Chilca. We will set up
grids tomorrow and do density studies of wolf
spiders, too.