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Journal
June 15, 1952 To Lake Arapa, Dpto. Peno.
We drove, with trailer, toward Tororo, then on rough road 12 mi. to Arapa, then 3 miles toward Chupa. Lake clear. Reeds in water near Arapa. Many lizards on beach. Steeper clean shore NE of Arapa. Camped near lining eucalyptus in a quebrada where there was a furia & group of Indian mud & beth huts. Oven not in today. Set 42 traps on dry hills near rocks, grass, bushes, & also near small clear stream close houses. Vegetation like llmago but greener. Strong breeze here. Many birds - Turkeys, doves, Zoro-trichia, spine tails, wrens, Curicoter, Phaleobomer, Chrygidon, & others, about trees & shrubs near the houses. A shot rock mole projects into lake line.
June 16, 1952 Monday 3 mi. NE Arapa, Dpto. Peno Traps held 12 Posilac, 1 B. darwinii, 2d. boliviensis (edge stream), 2 libs my 1045. Wind at night. Cirrus clouds, 5/10, in morning. Put up those catalogued (CK & M.K.), discarded others. Set no traps. Dr. Alejandro Quevedo, who has quite here for recreation, took us for a ride in his outboard motor boat. One cost, a few Anas flavi-rostris, flichus, sparrows hawk, hummingbird, gulls, comorants, seen.
June 17, 1952. I spent a four hours on lake with Quevedo. He has sheep ranch near Ayngaro & a ranch near Picotani. Set 25 traps near rocks, brush grass, above caseris.