Argentina field notes, v1528
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Pearson 1986 43 Reitthridge 86-33 Field no.3, 8:55 pm, 2.28 4 q 225×85×35×26½ 93g, ⅓ white, no score, quin would 86-34 Field No.4, 9:00 Pm, Brief Pilo E, 2.23 5 8 212×82×32×25 82g. Tesla 8/2 white, 5V/11mm, green mouth. Dry Weight 160 sheep dropping from scarful meadow = 20.5-1.3 20.5-1.3 = 19.2 g = 0.320g/pellet The above collection with NVG and dim red headlamp between 7:30-10:40 ad 3:30-4:55 a.m., Cloudy, cold calm, below freezing. Heard no owls. Saw no other species. 21 traps baited with grass, grass and eastern dodobian caught 1 Roethru, nothing else, although a couple of cage traps were springing easily. Into 2 receptacles of R marked in November. Collected samples of turf, one from 3.6 hour, mostly grass, and 1 from Scarful's with much "desiccated rose" = filares x 4.820 mm of broad-leafed fresh backyard grass stems weigh 3.2 g. To eat 70 g of them at 10cm in 20 seconds would require 5.86 hours (106 meters of broad-leafed grass stems up to 9mm wide). A measurement and recalculation of same data gives 5.72 hrs. Dissenting out all green vegetation (90% Holcus laratae, 5% white clover, 5% other narrow-leafed groes) from a 36,075 mm² (= .0361 m²) sample of turf from the turf at 3.6 am EPM where score