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abador carens. One more Ctenomys during the
day, and a 5-foot boa in a tree set. It had
a guinea pig in its stomach.
Deployed traps at 7 pm in firewood, no mice.
Rain
wind most of night, then gradually calm by noon.
Traps in dune grass had 2 Oryzomys; traps in
vigaceras had small abadons. Anita & boys
captured 1 Galax, 1 Eligor, a couple of small abadon, and
1 small abadon.
Slight thunderstorm and sprinkle of rain in
afternoon. Put out traps in a cortadera "mound"
(dry) in the afternoon; good rich, ungrazed
vegetation including quercus and broad-leafed
grease; lots of guinea pig droppings; saw no
Peritiridus droppings. This was back about 300
in the park where the ruins of the old Ballardo
Mansion are, then back up a canyon in the direction
of the Park headquarters. I put out about 15
Shenone, 15 M3, 5 cage, and 5 steel traps. Anita
put out about 40 sniped traps, and the boys about
25. Anita's bed (stick) about 15 Shenone + M3 and
steel traps in the rocks behind the house. Sunny
and hot.
Dec. 20
My traps caught 3 small abadons and a Sertulophis.
Anita's line in the Ballardo Canyon caught 3 toads and
an abadon, and the boys caught a big abadon.
The Sertulophis was dead in a steel trap set
in a good outcrop of rocks that comes down to the