Field notes, v1411
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(B) Koford 67 Journal 31 July 1972 Mon. Broad Buenos Aires outlines; this would be implemented & applied within each province. This is still in preparation, but first draft! also, in 1965 had proposed a Convention Endemism for threatened & migratory species at some meeting, but no acceptance. | Iguazu - about 100 000 A. on Argent. side. Godoy said much poaching in park by Brazilians. He will give me introductory letter. | There is a Comité Argentino de Conservación de la Naturaleza, of which Godoy is now president (Av. Santa Fe 1145), O. Person & other N. Americans listed as consultants. 1 August 1972, Tue. Buenos Aires went to Museum & met w/ Alfredo Ximénez, of Montevideo, mammalogist working on taxonomy of F. giffreji & pardinia. Was with Van Gelder & AMNH gr. in Beni, N. Bolivia, a few yrs. ago, in area NE of Mogdalena. Said must tracks of jaguar & other cats there, tho saw none. Now few jaguar in Paraguay, th't thought, as Chaco too dry. Ocelote in E. central area), Fuerte Olimpio x'ts. east of Km. 145, Camps Esperanza. Also an area of Rosario, new Mato Grosso border NE of Asunción. Hugo Pease now at Pato Iguazú; had seen "type" safari in Chaco. X. thought unreliable date, may concurante. (Factor of P.W. dead jaguar, client, in an arma store on Plaza San Martín). X. said F. pardinensis = synonym of tigrina. F.g. Paraguayensis, all in Uruguay, apparently often