JPMyers 1974 Journal Rte 11 Pond, Estancia Mickleland 35 Km S. of Juancho by road, Pto de Madariaga, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina 7 January 0700 Drove to Rte 11 Pond on Farmhouse road and parked in car when the road goes through that lowland. The object of the trip was to collect a Pictoral of known territorial status. Therefore I sat in the car watching nearby Pictorals (of which there were few - 24, including one that looks like it has juvenile plumage). After 2 hours spent determining that, with a fair degree of certainty, one particular bird was defending an area just S of the road, I moved to collect it. In the process it flew, and after several unsuccessful approaches it began consorting with other disturbed Pictorals - after which I was no longer sure which was which. In the chase I managed to shoot 1 WR (063) instead. Weather: cool, slight breeze, no clouds. On the way back to camp I collected 2 buff-breasted sandpipers from a large flock of buff-banded goldens foraging by the road near Arroyo Chico Bridge (061, 062). They were in the fallow corn field. The flock was fairly tight for these species. Grid 2 (Rte 11 Pond) Estancia Mickleland, Pto de Madariaga, Provincia de Bs As, Argentina 8 January After spending the night ~100 m from Grid 2, I placed Nets at 0300 hrs. By 0530 the light was too high, so I took the nets down. During the morning caught only 1 male Southern Lapwing. Returning from netting I picked up one lapwing chick off of Grid 1 (069) 9 January 5mm rain. I remained in camp to rehabilitate maggot-injured specimens Rte 11 Pond at Farmhouse Rd, Estancia Mickleland, Pto de Madariaga, Provincia de Bs As, Argentina 10 January Drove to Rte 11 Pond with Loin at 1530. Temp in 70's, wind very strong (stank car rolling from stop on level) and sky 20% cloud cover. Wind kept up until 1630; it quit as a brief squall passed over head. Birds along the road to my van skittish if the car, but once I stopped they returned to feed nearby. En route saw several hundred golden plovers in the fallow corn field E of the Arroyo Chico bridge as well as several buffalo. Despite the presence of appropriate looking holes along the roadside, with proper amounts of regulation, the east of Arroyo Chico bridge I saw no Pictorals, even in areas when they had been foraging at times when water level was similar. Buffalos [illegible] negrito, [illegible] (I should have noted seeing the jaystone 5 January) uncommon exceedingly common along the road. At Rte 11 Pond I watched interacting between territorial Pictorals and non-territorial White-capped [illegible]