Field notes, v1350
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Mymmal Leery 1969 journal 24 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.