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Pearson - 1996
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Cantera"). Fairly big and dense radal, palo pichi,
Colletia, Berberis, Ribes, Acaena, Mutisia, very few
rosa mosqueta, some green grass and dandelions. Saw
no mouse sign, but it is certainly good cover. Anita
put 20 and 20 traps also through similar habitat
nearby. Then we set about 15 Shermans and 3 steel
traps through and around the periphery of the dump. I
should guess that almost all of our traps are within
400 m of the dump or the virus house. Still no sign of
rats or mice.
9 November - Went out to the Hipodromo to pick up our traps
at 8 o'clock. Considerable frost at the Hipodromo. One
house mouse in the 21 traps in the trash dump, which
covers about 1 ha. In the 80 traps (Shermans and MS
alternating) in the brush caught 2 Akodon. Both were
adult males and both looked like hybrids between
xanthorhinus and olivaceus. Very little xantho color,
tail intermediate length. Killed all three and
delivered them to the IV District health people.
Their traps at km 7.5, which had caught one mouse the
day before, caught 5 mice. They said that some of
them were Oligoryzomys.
Our trapping area, Barrio 2 de Agosto, is south
of the Llao Llao route back the road that goes to the
Jockey Club, which is west of the race track.
Adam Hajduk came by at lunch time. He ran a big
Archeology meeting here at the Hotel Sol and is about
to host some visiting physical anthropologists who
want to work on material that he has in his house,
from up near Chos Malal.
Went to a slide show in the evening by Bechis,
with music by Chehebar and others; Argentina from La
Quiaca to Antartida. Splendid slides, two projectors.
10 November - Drove out to La Veranada and marked yearling
culms in the two bamboo clumps. Mostly sunny, warm.
Shirtsleeves weather even with the sun behind a cloud.
Some of the nire trunks, about 5 or 6 inches diameter,
are recently excavated by magellanica woodpeckers,
even down 2 or 3 feet from the ground. The trees
themselves alive, but many with dead tops. The lenga
up on the hill have dead tops also. A chimango came
and waited for lunch scraps while we were eating back
in the nires. Temp in Bariloche up to 71.
Then drove out to the trapping site on the road to
Colonia Suiza: 15 km W Bariloche, 2.8 km west of the