Argentina field notes, v1527
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Pearson 1985 55 Oct.27 Saveranda. Light rain during the night and misted about 9 a.m., then scattered clouds, Trofts bold see oddly Oryzomyx measured bamboo clump. Found a lot? dropping with 2 Androisings and some trees with long polo coarse fur and claws up to 15 mm long, only slightly reversed. → probably bare! at 2 p.m. Oct.28 Cool, scattered clouds in Baridobo. Went out to El Cordero to look for Rattler signs. Still almost none in the field near our campsite, where they were abundant X years ago, but found a concentration of droppings and a few holes around some clumps of cinder across the road. Suffering everywhere. Found a good shunk skull lying all by itself, clean. Oct.29 Baridobo. Scattered clouds, cool. Pogostia? etc. Oct.30 Baridobo. "", a few snow flurries. Owl peltala and computing 08.31 Went out to the town clump to look for Rattler signs and taco sign. Lots of taco, and some fresh Rattler droppings near the east end of the meadow, plus some cleared nap dandelion flowers, probably by Rattlers. While snooping around we were approached by José Celestino Arriola, a 66-yr old Campesino, champion ape man. He was born in the north, moved when going to Rio Mauco, then to Baridobo. He knew Herenchupan. He remembers the "1928 or 1929" flowering of the bamboo (in Mauco, I think) as well