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Wyer,
Phil
1973
Journal
125
Salta de Pirareto, 10 km S Purebeluy, Dept. Cordellera, Paraguay.
27 May dense vegetation very thorny. Many camelids. No sign anywhere. Caught nothing one trap spring & we heard the dog yelp when he did it. Chased down & caught a chinocete in the stream after slightly wounding it with pasty I could run faster in shallow water than it could swim under the surface.
Because of live animal
28 May & because it rained a little in the AM (& looked like more) we decided to leave.
Lots of stuff blowing. The Palo Borracho has great butch lapachost many others as in flúin. Particularly bushes & herbs.
31 May Peralota, Asunción, Paraguay
Handcaught an eptesious on the path floor.
5 June Weather has been wet, warm. N storm.
Many mosquitoes.
4 km ESE Asunción, Paraguay Quenita Rivola. Warm, partly cloudy, windless.
Best free bat, 4 Eptasiens & a Molossus caught right away late (6) caught
3 Sturmius, 7 tritubes, 1 Molossus, Vampyrops,
& 1 Molossus.
6 June Peralota, Asunción, Paraguay. Fig tree fruiting by patio. Fruit small - largest are ½" dia., mostly seed. Best lots of bat.