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here are about 14"; many of them in places have rhymes going
6 miles or more down into the sand. See on "Spider" hole
in bare sand between Tillabris.
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11 a.m. cloudy tanbo .15°, sand 3" down 17°, 5" down 17°. at 1:30
coudy bright with haze 16 ½°.
more insects in afternoon. In most places the sand
is damp down about 3 miles. nearest non-Tillabris
reception is in the gulley, about ¼ mile from the
study area. The puffantree in the gully seems to
be spread about 100 yards apart.* There has been rain
since we were here last year, as well as rain
upstream. After operating scores of tempering,
lizard or gecko holes in the sand, almost always
no results, found a big cricket insect, similar to
those collected here and at 80½ km this year (but not
last year). Burning owl pellets piled up along the
reach on south side of gulley contained 1 bird,
seeds of insects (butterfly wings and lots of cricket
jaws), no scorpion parts. Last year's
owl pellets had lots of cricket must have been cricket
jaws also. Saw two burning out today, plus sparrow
hawks and big frading. The pit footprints here
this year and last are tiny (smaller than at
80½ km); found one old skeleton and the skull
is tiny.
Set 2 traps up in sandy Tillabris and one
around boulders at camp. Caught lizard under flat rock.