Field notes, v651
Page 19
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V.M. Djiadoz 1978 El Jirol, 230 m., 19.5 km. NNE Encarnacion by road, Dpto. Itapua, Paraguay. 2 September: weather was cool, with an overcast sky and no strong winds. From 05:45 to 07:30 I walked around the Hotel El Jirol buildings, recording. (To simplify identification of the buildings, I am labelling them with numbers on the map. I will also draw in and label structures not shown on the original map.) At 07:45 I left the hotel area and took the following route: from the airstrip to tung orchards and manioc fields, out to the road and then into the pasture by the road (which I'm labelling pasture #1), through Becker's forest to the castor tree area, across the pasture (#2) to the 'cut over, grazed forest', back through pasture #2 to the field which has been recently plowed (not on original map, I'm drawing it in) and to the airstrip. I returned to the hotel at 12:25. From 16:20 to 17:40 I recorded around the hotel buildings. A large group of people was arriving at the hotel, and it was difficult at times to hear birds over the people noise. There were very few