Niger Phil 1974 33 January Isla Dumean, Galapagos, Ecuador 5-6 Feb But we saw no evidence of this. Lots of rat sign, & I picked up a rat skull along the base of cliff bordering Choravino. In the same area there were bits & pieces of furish skin (of several individuals or one individual widely scattered) & here & everywhere there were to [illegible] legume seed pods, there was evidence that the rats were gnawing on them. We set out 76 Sherman's to Tomahawk. The Tomahawks went into Choravino & along the shade line to Sherman went up the hill 'at night' I saw 2 rats, one just outside of a Sherman eating oats. Other people saw other. Caught only 14 rats, both subopt., 13 in Tomahawks. They just don't like the Sherman. 4 of my 24 Sherman were set off, & several had fresh piles of legume pods nearby. Lots of T. spiders, not too skeletal, striped. Geckos were fairly easy to find under rocks during the day. We looked mainly where there was tuffs of vegetation in the area heavily used by sea lions. Most that we caught were tiny, but found 1 egg under a rock at night. They were very hard to find, the those that