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the traps caught 3 Thomomys 4 arvicolas & 6 Sitomys of the kind found usually on mt. tops. While in El Chico Mr. N. & J made a trip one day to a place on top of the mts, called the "llano de los conejos" where Mr N. who had been there before had found some arvicolas runways near some water in the center of the meadow. When we arrived some boys had just stopped with their oxen near where we wanted to put traps. We waited a 

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while & finally I struck off down the other side of the Mt. to town. Leaving Mr N. to wait & set the traps when the boys moved off. I went up again the following day to take up the traps caught 3 arvicola & a Sitomys common at high altitudes. I set a lot of meat traps on 4 different nights in canons below El Chico but with rather poor luck as the people managed to get away with some of traps & 3 of