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Pearson
1987
7
Summary of pellets collected at Curo Genes on
April 19, 1987. 61 entire pellets, 2 of them without
shells ( ) = in partial pellets)
Auliscomya 12 (15) Euniceomya 4 Gastrocer 2
also Ranga 22 (11) Raithro 8 (2) Eligmo 3 (1)
also Leantlo 25 (2) Phylotile 1 (1) Ctenomya 2 (1)
Orygginga 18 (2) Cholemya 1 (2) Fraconyma 2
Soffee 1
Barn owl feather
Total 101 (37)
£ 138
Noted parameters. Sprinkler off and on. Two rhos
at Cariba Anchor. Saguna Fox junior, was dry,
with about 30 Chimangas feeding in the middle
of it.
Coming home took the "short cut" SE of Curo Genes.
Close to the Curo there is a very nice, not too
over-groomed mallin of about 4 or more ha.
It must be the source of some of the Auliscomya
that the owls catch. But that would it. But
essentially, from the mallin to beyond the
airport on Estaire Conder, it is almost pure
Savanelgrass. Bumygrain in other directions also.
Just SW of the mallin are several ha of turf, and
to the NW maybe 10+ ha of 15 to 20-ft-tall pines
in dense plantation. The tops of Curo Genes seem
to support the densest cypress forest ground, but
they are still scattered enough to have lower