Argentina field notes, v1528
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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