Field notes, v1522
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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.