Wages Phil 1973 Journal 149 390km NW Villa Hayes, Dept Boquerón, Paraguay (29 July) We saw a small armadillo running alongside road. I stopped it lived down a shallow hole bent by grabbing its tail & working at it, I extracted it. Seems to be a female species. Very hairy, looks dear a total porcupine except for a long skinny tail. Vegetation is Prosopis (mesquite), very dry, & soil is very peaty clay. 474 km NW Villa Hayes, Dept Boquerón, Paraguay 30 July Lots blooming, esp. shrubs. Left a coffee cup half full of water, in the carhood in the afternoon. It spontaneously generated 'water striders'. Dry country. Some of the roadside ditches are a little damp at the bottoms but no standing water. Saw a # of bats, amazingly looked like Molossus but they were no vespertilionids. No net up. 31 July Very warm overcast. 3 Mice all Phyllotis in the collapsible Shermons. Saw several deer in AM crossing the road. Left around 10 AM into Ft Ladelfia until 2, then headed home. Stopped briefly at Charrua. Sky was overcast, some lightning. Very threatening. Left after an hour or so 9 PM. Many foxes along the driveway (~10), & 20 woodpeckers cast before we reached Cerito at 4 AM. Patches of mizzle but road stayed open. Just beyond Cerito it had rained heavily & road was a mire. Reached ferry at 4:30 AM just as it started to pour.