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Vicungas, several flocks
whitewere galleytes
were seen in ponds at the
Crucero and east of them.
was marshy habitat gas
short. A light fall of snow
was covering the track,
open feet but the weather
now sunny 20th Jan.
A mile beyond Crucero we
saw another party of 3
vicungas and on a side
hill some half-mile away so
a single one. Reached two
large fatunas about 10 miles
ridelength. Saw some flamingos
on one of a great many mud-
hens on the other. These lakes
are apparently deep, the hills
rising steeply from the shore.
Reached Santa Lucra at 4 P.M.
rates a silvermine isolated in
the wall of the station house
was beside a stuffed coyote
stuffed with the mouth open showing
to teeth. It was a large species,
better than this country they are.