Argentina field notes, v1528
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driveway. Photographed Rattlesnake, home midnight. May 10 Bariloche. Windy, partly cloudy. Weighed Rattlesnake folder of droppings. Back to same place at El Cordero at 5 p.m. Watched and photographed Rattlesnake with NVGA and spotlight. Saw big lot and big shrike, both in the middle of my Rattlesnake area. Our former campsite (22 km ESE Bariloche) is 1.7 km beyond El Cordero driveway. Lots of Rattlesnake droppings on the road down than N. Pico road. The Rattlesnake photo strip is 1.1 km E of there. Saw 7 hare in the headlights at 11:30 on the 2.8 km from the photo place to El Cordero drive. Several horse seen near the photoplace. May 11 Conference with Valverde, then back to El Cordero at 6 p.m. Cold, calm, clear. Hunted & photographed Rattlesnake. Back 11 p.m. 5 hare in the same 2.8 km of road, May 12 Clear. To Siao Floo bamboo with Isabel Gallepin. A Chacar came right up to us many times while we were working at climb #1. May 13 Tarah came by. He says "Prado" is the best word to describe the Rattlesnake "turf". To describe the droppings of Eunice, Argentine markets sell a "cereal listo para comer" called "RICE KRISPIES!" Patria thinks "Prado" is too formal-garden a word, agrees that "Pradera" means prairie, not necessarily short grass, and that the best Spanish word for turf is a horse-racing word "turf".