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brown. We saw two more coming back, also more emus, but not so many [[margin, vertical line in blue pencil]] as going.  Armadillos are common. I kept sticking my foot into holes in the campo [[/margin, vertical line in blue pencil]] (while something was being done to trucks). I asked what made them and learned it was the armadillo. I saw the "shells" but none alive.
I hope to get back to São Paulo in about 10 days and look forward to getting lots of letters.
I have been making up my bundles of hay today. I have two from

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the Dourados trip and one press still drying. One thing I forgot. Besides Lasiacis ligulata, of which I got good specimens at Dourados, I got another Lasiacis Saturday in the midge-infested matta. I [[underlined]] think [[/underlined]] it will [[margin, vertical line in blue pencil]] turn out to be L. sorghoidea. The region south of here, especially south of Rio Brilhante to Rio Dourados, is the most fertile I have seen in Brasil. Things are so rank, like Illinois bottom lands, and the mud [[/margin, vertical line in blue pencil]] bottomless, too, like Illinois. The land has been badly abused, grazed till Aristida pallens and other species, Trachypogon ^[[insertion]]  Trichacline insularis [[/insertion]] and composities higher than my