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jacdaci. Rather sparse sagebrush. Ante/pint (7) museum
specime!
April 28 Some drizzle during night, no wind. I also saw the and
3 Elqueadotes in tropes, discarded. Drove Route 2-3 all
day - overcast, muddy, and camped in a gravel pit
about 60 km WNW Valcheta. Very bare open desert soil
covered with pebbles, scattered thornbushes of various sorts
and farces, no grass, heavy grazing. Put out about
55 tropes.
Along the road during the day saw 2 groups of 3 Pheas
about the size of large turkeys, no grouse or, I squashed
hare, I squashed hairy armadillo at some place where
we stopped during the day, saw 3 kinds of droppings at the
base of large dense clumps of bushes: quailry size, mouse
size, and Pantherinae size of torture scat and pointed.
At our present campsite are numerous piles of large Dobloto's
droppings, but we have not seen the host.
April 29 Night overcast, then clearing, morning clear.
Tropes held 20 Elqueadotas (55 tropes).
Stopped at 11 to shine 45 km W of Valcheta. Broke
open a big thorny sort of albud and a grassy cape
row out, caught him in a thorn patch. Broke open
several more (more of them quite as easy) but
nothing in them except dead burps.
Drove till 6 pm and camped about 4 hours W of
Sierre Grande, part tropes 2 km W, and the rest
4 km W. Both of these places, where 2 other (places