Field notes, v1521
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spreads through this ichu & Chiquiá area and some rocks at 3 pm - cool, windy, sunny. all habitats more or less similar. small rocks slide over the slope has 2 armored visaceas (key shot one non-frog?) July 27 morning cold, calm, clear. My traps had 1 Abdon lobensis and 1 Colopus dirillo. Others had same plus Phyllotis darwinii. Windy got Ph paitera. Nearly full moon. Flipped rocks & boards during AM, but only catch was a calomys elrodus under a boat hull at the edge of the lake. Drove back to Papa Juan. July 28 no garúa. Visited area in a.m. and re-weighed/plants to see changes due to humidity etc: #21 343 gr. #14 248 gr. #32 392 #18 448 gr. 11 AM wet bulb 60:63. #20 118 #26 160 = 84% #1 308 #6 294 12:30 noon; wet bulb 59:62½. morning cloudy. Picked up footscats between grid and Calbuco Dero; a few fruit seeds, but mostly mouse fur and teeth of a very old Ph darwinii and one or more house mice. Flushed 2 Burhinus off the south edge of the grid; They flew together, landed in the middle of the big dry wash, and walked slowly and nervously along together. Looked up about 50 Burhinus? pellets on the area and they contained: large numbers of insect remains like those of Storopelmatis but smaller, some scorpion claws, a few greco bones, assorted chitinous plates & legs.