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INTA property, which is maybe 5km E of Canedo Bonito.
Returned to the headquarters and about 3pm, by which time it was
rain-snow-wind, put out a line of rainfall traps about 15m outside
the N, W, and S sides of the two enclosures; saw no good sign or
droppings, not even Reithrodron. Amite/plastered the region inside
the [illegible] enclosure where the new mouse had been caught.
Then drove to the NE corner and put 2 lines across it. The
vegetation there was same as on the hilltop where the
enclosures are. Lightly grazed, no matacorcida in either
place. Then drove toward Camallo looking for a sheltered
campsite. Found none, so slept in the car about halfway
down the long descent toward Camallo. The rain stopped
just about dark and the clouds suddenly disappeared. Night
clear, heavy frost.
May 11, clearing clear. This site on the descent is quite bushy,
including a large bush with willow-like leaves, lots of mata
torcida, and all the same vegetation as at INTA.
Traps at the NE corner caught 3 Elegusdorata, outside traps
in the enclosure caught 2 Elegius and 1 also houndo. Nine around
the perimeter caught 5 Elegius (about 40 traps), nothing at 3pm.
Relied up traps at the NE corner at 3:30 and
set them at our campsite halfway down the grade to
the Camallo Valley and put about 10 in Cortadera and all
the rest at the base of Mata Torcida (Stylinger palegines).
Many of these have been sheared by armadillos. I dug
around numerous ground-level sand: red ants (at base of
green stone); silverfish; a single large termite; a fewal