Argentina field notes, v1528
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and matto bettle. 12 mice in the traps, none in the grass/pine/weeds, but almost every trap in the weedy/busy place was occupied. eaten: 3 Phyllotis, 1 Raithes, 1 andiscus, 7 also longi. Tested the 4 species on rosa mosqueta fruits; see Rosa species account. at 7 p.m. put 18 Sherman traps with oats in the Rosa mosqueta/lafrer in the abandoned orchard where the road up Cero Otta leaves the Faldas. Saw no birds of eaten fruit. One very busy yellow jacket nest in the bank below the road. April 18 Barichal Traps caught 4 Oryzomys, period. Frost, yellow jackets working on balcony at 10° cloudy. Overcast almost all day, no wind. 31 In afternoon put about 30 Sherman and 39 Museum Specials at Cero Georce; one line near the bottom of the cliff and the other in the flatter parts As you walk from the road/forest towards the cliff, almost all the vegetation consisted of Eurydynamis, various leafed Baccharis, and Malvinius, a few scattered rosa mosqueta, chasoy, ad Collotia, ad Beneicia. = bush stoppe, ground cover about 50%. Quite a few cardoncillos (monoesta), barely any Ocraea. I seem to remember less in the spring the strap-leafed monkey that the striped