Field notes, v1345
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D. Hamilton 1967 Jurnal July 9 Km 213 Pan American Highway, 110 Kms, 42 Km E of Cosmo, Dept Ancash, Peru On route from de foybte Km 213 to first m Pan-Amer. Highway, Dept y Ancsh. un arrived, Drivng by 1100 am on road to go, Amrson in son diress life is not entirely a thornless bed grew as the car base Down in sanden dig it at a grove of to get stuck again. About 1230 pm managed to read the lighting a distance of less tha 1 Km. I'm not sure how many times we got stuck total, at last the till sun until any smiss - for can do in sand or just not much. Km 5, En route from Km 213 to Cosmo, Depto. Ancash, Peru We had N along the Pan American Highway. Again the surroundin green is very desolate as no pass seen area that seem entirely lifeless. We also pass scattered hills frequently seeming to be entirely lifeless. Occasionally saw some as far scattered Tellerandria plant growing in them. At km 238 pm were within sight of the ocean and pulled to the side of the road. We walked about 100 yds through sand to the H2O's edge. It had run very sandy, as was covered with faint track & many licks which we thought were probably made by some sort of birds. Saw the first two thin water many feet high lagoon grass. And quite up several Brown Pelicar, Leicurus accidentalist, as our skill of Oranye Cormorant, Phalocrocer bagzinovillii, Serenier Bony Dells, Larus modestus on Kelp Ball unseen Larus dominicanus. Studies seen were on Black Oystercatcher, Haematopus ater, on Senigulated Plover, Charadrius Charadrius semiplanatus and about the Sandpipers, Crocethia alba, Desert larkin, Sula variagata many White-rumped Petrels & unknown species. They were probably of genus Oceanites possibly oceanicus. (It is very difficult to get good view of wetted area of their hides). After about one-half hour we departed this area, aiming to pick on. The morning's