Argentina field notes, v1527
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170 lower carib spring brush as in Berenice altiplano. Some mouse had been eating acacia seeds. Dec.12 Captives tend to be soft to themselves, strictly vegetarian (except for 1 of the 8 captives), ate apple, oatmeal, and various grasses from the backyard. Preferred feed seemed to be green, grain seed-beads. They cut twigs off of cypress, but I don't know whether they ate any. They did not eat the bark. The two pairs of pairs in captivity were 8-9 adult pairs; the others mostly preg. 9-9. Dec 14 Cerro Secco. Caught a juvenile in road scre in a Sherman with rolled oats. Baccharis, Palo Pichi, neeo, Secvio. Both captives when they woke up started eating green seed heads of acacia, Colletia, Secvio, Baccharis, apple, and grasses were available. During the night they ate all their apple. Dec.16 To the top of Cataldo with the Warren. Up the 3-stage orange chairlift to Punta Piranosa (2100 m), then