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P. PEARSON
1955
Festuca right here but some nearby.
Drove to Uyuni for mail & gas, then east of town for trap sites.
Site 1 - Pompa, 1 mi. E Uyuni, 12,100 ft. Very bare sandy pompa
with half-buried pillows of yarata, dwarf grass, dried thorn
plants about 8" high, and a few piles of rocks where the
traps are set. Saw 2 very small lizards.
Site 2 - 2 mi. E Uyuni, 12,100 ft. Drifted sand and tota.
Site 3 - 5 mi E Uyuni, 13,000 ft. A rocky hill with
8-foot phollic cactus, shorter fuzzy cactus, pallver cactus,
Ephedra, and various tota, a few clumps of ichue.
Sept 20 TUE Uyuni. The high wind while I was setting traps yesterday after-
noon died down at dusk, came up again during the night, was gone
at dawn, then came up again during the morning.
Heard Tarinotus calling, saw parakeets.
June 1 had 3 Eligmodontia; June 2 had 1 Eligmodontia. June 3
had 5 Lba dormini + 5 Bolomyx alivirentis? Many springs &
empties, probably by Alviconos? or Otdotobomys?, whose scats and
white urine were abundant.
Harecut and vegetation for repair of spactures in Uyuni,
then set 1 1/2 traps part way up the hill east of town.
Not as high as Site 3 of last night, not as much cactus;
mostly bare stony ground and 1-foot narrow-based Bocchinie,
some cushion cactus and fuzzy cactus but none of the big
phollic cactus. All sets along road-supporting stone walls.
Evening clear & calm.
Checked out trap line at 8:30 p.m. and had 2 Phyllothea and
discovered the last shot springs the traps. Out of a stone wall he
chuckled at me and with the flashlight I could see only a few