Field notes, v1525
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"with miles of 'monte cerroso' and quebracho blanco, many species of thorny scrub ixoroa, prosopis, salrea, etc. Then changing quite abruptly to agriculture, such as olives, [illegible] at Villa Dolores, then lost again and north and back up the mountain to Pampa de cebola. Returned at 6 pm. It must have poured and haled in our absence. Everything wet, almost all traps springing. A pollodor here says there are furies and shurovers here, not cats. Pulling my 10 traps in the rich near camp and the three along the stream in the a.m. At 6 pm ran my line and bed, on the 'abundant isle' 2 oty and 2 abo. In the arroyo was 2 Pseudotrypes, 1 oty, 1 Abalon, and 1 Cinclodes. Arrita bed 2 oty and 1 lizard. 7 hours of driving, we saw 2 steegs, dramatic mountain ranges (Sierra de Pablo and Pampa de cebola) more dramatic changes of habitat, and many miles of semiarid, rather miserable habitat. The Pampa de cebola with its total lack of trees and marshy/ bunchgrass/grante/ almost no brush habitat is certainly unique. [There are a few Berberis shrubs, small, and a few Polygala in the narrow quebradas] Nov. 27 my new line of 18 traps up near the gato in tumbled hounds on the edge of grazed rich field 3 abalon and 2 Phyllostes. In the arroyo was 1 oty, 1 abo, and 1 Phyllostis, and in the rich bunchgrass isle was