Field notes, v1519
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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