Field notes, v1521
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is coming up to wheat?, a few inches high. Several spects sitting around but found no good burrows (although several looked like they had been started and were 1 1/2 to 2 feet deep). Lots of tucas out in the plowed field. Found one good burrow at the very edge of this cultivated field a little beyond where Tucis was troffing. tucas. There were 5 or 6 spects sitting next this burrow (2 squabbling). also another burrow on the baravea about 150 m beyond the end of the torque of tadas that extends west from the road went to town, then localized two calls from 5 to 6, much of the calling seems to come from "fisting" holes opened since this morning. night clear, morning warm sunny, little wind. Some clouds in PM but warm & calm. Tucas active and calling all day but stopped at dusk 6 p.m., still calm. Set 4 more works here in block soil for 3 hours and cought 3 tucas. Also 2 steel traps during most of day caught 3 blue and 1 dead tucas. Canuset tucas (fresh hole) bygining at 7:30 a.m. then troffing with 6 workers in each of the 8