Field notes, v1524
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on the noble line, sandy soil. Vegetation very much like that on the mesa at Arroyo Cerral a year ago. about 40 MS and 4 Sherman's; Anita set on the south side 8 Shermans + 32 MS. where the mountains create a rocky hill of. The vegetation much richer and much more diverse. My flora/plus lots of bushes such as Collatura and Boeabian, hawthorn, sweetwood, spiny browse-buds, even cacti. Only a small part of her line in rocky terrain. Nov. 21 my troops caught 5 also long's and 1 also fowlies, the latter under one of the two bushes on the line; Anita caught 9 also long's and 2 Culecomps x. Beautiful clear day. Then went to Cerro Gordo to look for owl pellets. Saw one very pale underneath barn? owl flying out; lots of new pellets. Also panned through the loose boxes on the bottom of the best crevices and found a half-dozen mammalians including Gestodelphus and Dromecifis. crossed also 1 Cerecomps. Saw 1 viscocha x. Rest of day shining, check colors of also long's from the two sides of the river, Nov. 22. Clear day, little wind; shamed in morning; lizard hunting with Sage + A K Pim afternoon along the Tehuel model road. At the red-rock cliff about 5 km out the road from Mohvel thralfine got 3 species of Sicalenus: the red-bellied S. burgerii, the speckled plus random broken spots and dark belly L. rothi, and L. altissimus (elongatus). In the sandy steps about 1 km from the main road we got more S. bingyi (spotty/white.