Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
outdoors doing anything, It was a Saturday, mostly sunny,
and windy.
The station master at Fitzroy said no lots in Fitzroy but
yes in the station at Berito Moreno.
Nov. 14
About 40 trofe in thornbush-grass-yards it caught
nothing. Evening was breezy but night calm; Temp at 6 a.m.
was 7° . A tanager nest with about 15 apple-green large eggs, the
bird seems to make a gentle early-morning call note "bow-wow?".
Day mostly sunny and only moderate wind, Drove north on
route 3 almost to Condors-hum-duns, then west to Sarp Musters and
camped at Nueva Subecka. Various stops revealed no lots and no
knowledge of them, at Estancia Santa Rita they said no lots there but
lots in the bell tower of a church in Navarro, They don't like having
European horses. Saw clutch of goslings of the common Chlorofoega;
then with half-grown young. The RR between Comodoro & Sarmiento
seems to be abandoned.
Set about 25 trofe in thorn-bunch-grass-thorn mat scrubby
desert, and 2 lot nets: 1 at the Post office and the other at an
abandoned house 100m away. Nueva Subecka consists of a
substantial stone post office, 1 abandoned house, a shed containing
modestly shelveslairs and 2 live chickens, litter, no people, pepper
trees, and a few alamos, aphid-infested. Saw no lots flying,
no signs. Evening clear & calm. 10° at 10 p.m., Nueva Subecka is
60km S of post de San Martin (which is near a previous collecting
locality Gobernador Costa).
Nov. 15
Morning calm, averaged 4° at sunrise. No lots. Trofe held 4
Eligmolortus and 1 abedon fauntha. Caught in amid sage brush bush.