Field notes, v1524
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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