Argentina field notes, v1527
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Barden 1975 61 Left out some lures, baited with a few tired claudious and (my live traps), alfalfa pellets. Anita had 2 Cruelcoupe (a huge one and a juvenile) long before dinner. Mr. Marful, the owner of this property, came by at 7:30 and invited us for tea at his home ½ hour west (between our camp and the Sage Pinto mines). We returned at dusk (9:30) and checked traps and jacklighted. Traps held only 2 aulico, 1 abdon longi, and 1 Reithra, and we saw only 3 or 4 Reithra, one of them quite close. Morning, no wind, clear sky. During the late afternoon Anita was poking her finger into a freshly excavated small burrow and felt a mouse; it was a Geopu. In dense grass (brush) such as Sarcia in the overgrazed railroad right-of- way. Nov. 13 Traps held 5 Reithras (one a receptacle), and assorted sized aulico and smallish abdon longi. Total catch for the 39 traps from late yesterday afternoon to this morning (picked up traps): 6 Reithra, 8 aulico, 5 abdon longi, and 1 Geopu. all traps were set in runway, tunnel, or at barrow openings. Certain traps caught a series of animals, not always same species. No doubt that Reithra, aulico, and abdon longi were all using the same burrows. We caught nothing in the tunnel from which the trees was harvested yesterday. We