C64 53 Journal 6 April/1973. Hato de la Cruz, Venezuela Arbologue (3 on road). Along road, saw 2 or 3 mice, but generally nothing in about 20 km. of driving (to El Toro windmill, edge road). Returned 10 p.m. Saturday 7 April 1973, About 8 a.m., I went to Los Colibris area, Chile to Los Mules. Dry windy day. On dust trail near my marine boat, a few [illegible] for puma? I found tracks of jaguar, about 9 cm. diam. across toes, at other spots I found no recent tracks of cats, in spite of dirt. Yesterday we saw two Dasyprocta granisina? in fan palms & 20 trees at edge route, Los Colibris (at 1/2 mile) Chile reported finding two Dasyprocta + two opossum collared possums which joined to one grp. of 25. Not quite tracks, some possible cat tracks. / Again saw a few small litter how our savannah. / Los Colibris & Los Mules about 7 km. apart - could not? be same jaguar? We searched for tracks on road + trails in other route areas; none of cats found. Returned to base. / Very dry windy day; fires started life & smoke visible seen km away. / About 3 p.m., Alfredo Paul arrived w/ wife & another man. Paul said that (about 5 p.m. - me, the "prize") plan she saw jaguar a month ago was about 1/2 km. S. side long on Cerralon, near the dam. A second seen in that area within a week. / The [illegible] workmen said they saw a puma drinking at Jalito water windmill, about 7 km. E of site, on two recent occasions. / We spent time 5:30-8:30 p.m. along road through route at Los Mules. The ground fire had progressed & already burned about half the area, including site where Chile saw possums. In wood we saw dozens of tracks of Ocelot makeup. Saw a toucan in top large green tree in moderate smoke. On road, many tracks here, and one long set of tape trails + others. We saw a few rabbits and capybara, some unidentified opossum, & a Quetzal walking in burned area. Hoped to see ocelot, but none sighted in flashlight beams. I saw opossum red, in tree, 8' up in branches; thought it a moth, but it proved to be a tree snake (saved specimen). Agile, twisting, could flatten spec.