Argentina field notes, v1529
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Pearson - 1988 sanborni, Rhyncholestes, etc. survived? November 9- Lago Escondido, 24 km WNW Bariloche. In the afternoon drove out to the Llao Llao peninsula and counted bamboo shoots at our marked clumps, then camped at the picnic area at Lago Escondido and put out traps. Anita put 29 Shermans and 29 MS, and I put 30 Shermans and 30 MS; all in pretty pure bamboo with scattered huge coihues and cipresses. Not many logs. November 10- Bariloche. Night calm, clear, mild. Saw one bat flying in the forest at dusk but not out over the lake. Anita's traps had 4 live and 2 death Ako longi; my traps had 13 live Ako longi, 1 dead Ako longi, and 1 death Oryzomys. These lines for the first time showed a clear superiority of the live traps (all the dead ones were in snap traps). My Oryzomys was under the big rosa mosqueta in the open clearing where I had shown Isabel the rosa fruits eaten by Oryzomys. Several of the Ako longis were in pure dense bamboo, such as in the "tunnel of love". All day processing mice. November 11- Bariloche. Cloudy, then clear, windy. Mice and bamboo in apartment. Anita went to Maddie's for tea, the "English" gardener lady who lives 2 blocks farther up our street. The cold last winter killed back her young, bushy arayan tree and her native fuchsia bushes. To the Ninos y Jovenes Cantores in the evening. November 12- Bariloche. Partly cloudy and very windy. To Christie's for tea with Richard Klug and wife Clara. He is a retired forester with a Master's from Berkeley in the 1930s, ran a saw mill here in Bariloche until a few years ago. He says Lenga is OK for windows, trim, furniture, etc., coihue not as good. Deplored how many of the big trees were hollow "from fungi". November 13- Bariloche. To our bamboo on Cerro Otto. Sunny. Killed mice and measured bamboo in the apartment. Michael Christie came by with Buneomys publications. The Princeton illustration of Buneomys petersoni definitely has laterally placed grooves on the upper incisors. Os good's illustration of FM 50736 also shows laterally placed grooves. November 14- To our marked bamboo clumps on the Llao Llao Peninsula where we counted marked leaves. One culm had been vandalized, and one had died. Then set traps . Went back the first road into the forest after passing the Villa Tacul road. The road branches; the right branch goes back to an open meadow area with the native retamo etc and had recently been "reforested" with cipresses and ?radal? about a meter tall. Many of them death or dying. Two caranchos there at dusk. The left branch crosses a stone bridge, goes through dense bamboo plus enormous cipresses and coihues, then begins to open up, but I didn't follow it all the way. I rather suspect that the Llao Llao hotel once had a farm and stable back here. I shall refer to it as Llao Llao Farm. Didn't see any old buildings. We walked through the meadow area at dusk when there should have been hares all about, but we saw none. In fact, no droppings either, and I don't recall ever seeing hares on the Llao Llao peninsula. Anita set 27 Shermans and 34 Museum Specials back the right branch of