Argentina field notes, v1528
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Pearson 1987 41 across the road in rocks bed 2 Elequidonta, ante's live nothing x Tamp. warm, cloudless. The results of 2 nights of 17 steel traps and 31 cube traps set in burrows originally made by [illegible] tucan that the burrows are occupied by tucan, not vultures and not anything else (or they could have been caught in the steel traps - or cube traps). Report on cube traps: they have a lot of flaws for this kind of trapping: water condenser inside them, then soil gets stuck to the moisture and hinders the fall of the door. Some dirt always gets into the front door as you slide the trap into the burrow. Nov. 18 Soft early for photos of the Estancia Pinto more area, then Konrad Bailey, administrator of Estancia San Ramón drives us down the canyon of La Fragua, beginning at Marful's gate and its railroad, past the east side of the condor cliff, and north for about 6 kms to an abandoned puesto (but house in fairly bad condition). Crossed several streams flowing into the Fragua to our right. Road probably passable in 2-wheel-drive. Farther down, the canyon enters Fiscal (Indian) land and enters the Gimmey. Saw a couple of hare and quail on the way in. Lots of pine plantings on various slopes, some up to 10 or 15 feet tall. The canyon is quite similar to the Valle Encantado of the Rio Gimmey, with cipreses and rock spires + cliffs.