Journal Etamena Medland 35 km S of Juancho by road, Pcia de Buenos Aires, Argentina a short distance. 23 November cont'd Arbelang was not there, so we drove Barrett Wilson up the road to await his return. Many of the fields along the road in the immediate vicinity of the entrance to Medland are of the short grass-type which seems to be preferred by bufffio and golden. And in fact the birds themselves are there. Between the entrance and Arroyo Chico I found no large concentrations of bufffio, but at 3 out of 5 stops made they were a few. Golden are common, but indifferently dispersed in all the fields along the road. In this stretch there were approximately 50 bufffio and ~200 goldens - a very rough approximation. We stopped at the bridge over Arroyo Chico, the northern limit of Estancia Medland. In the water were 5 Phalacrocorax aristotelis plus some ylopaintails. Many brown headed geese along the shore, plus a few white-rumps. 2 barn swallows, 1 cliff swallow, 1 tree swallow, 1 southern martin (which I think was building the nest I found in construction under the bridge). In the field to the NNE were well-dispersed goldens but no visible bufffio. We crossed Arroyo Chico, and went to a field <2 km beyond Estancia Arroyo Chico (building on W side of road) where yesterday I had discovered another large concentration of bufffio and goldens. They were still there. This area appears (with a cursory glance) to be like the dense bufffio area on Medland - short grass, gently little (but some local depressions). 100+ bufffio easily visible at a distance from the road. At this point Arbelang drove by so we headed back toward the Copatag's house to meet him. Without any fuss - without having to produce letters of introduction etc. - he gave permission to work here. The following day, we followed him through the gate, and stopped a few hundred meters from the road (along the dirt road) where the track goes down a shallow bridge. Running N-W-S, perpendicular to the dirt road, is a series of small, shallow, and drying ponds. They are 300 m -500 m long, but less than 10 m wide. 3 patches of tule, run over 3 m in diameter, most of the pond sparsely "covered" with a woody plant a few feet high, singlestalk and Solanum leaves. This plant appears to grow in areas which are covered by water during the winter and spring but dry up on summer. Thus disappoint that these ponds dry up (except perhaps for small puddles around the ditch). Anyway, there were 6+ yelp (less than 20 total), GR (<10), and ~15 Pectorals. Bufffio were present but not abundant on the field to the W beyond the rise. 2 screaners along the pond, a small flock of pintail in the water. Many Belleginent Cattle + a herd of horses. In fact