At dark we went back to the grid to make a count spiders in a couple squares - using eye shine to locate them. Also found one gecko - saw a shadow running in the sand ahead of us. It is entered in myrmal's catalogue. July 16 4th. ENE Pucumana, Dept. Lira, Peru Off to find Jorge Reyes (the Gobernador de Lira). From his house (on a vegetable farm near the town of Pachacamac), we went to find Andrés Mendoza who had agreed to go with us to hunt viscachas, who really knew what to find them. So off up the Quebrada de Lira, along a road which lead through a quarry that was used for rocks for the Atacama cement mill, past a few clusters of goat herds, and ultimately (says Jorge) to a mine. We parked the car on the road & took off in various directions. I climbed up the southern side of the very steep mountain valley we were in. It wasn't too hard going up, and I saw lots of old viscacha droppings. One little cave recess had tracks & droppings of viscacha & armouros, and in another small cave I found the viscachas mandible - maybe 150 meters or so above the road. Neither saw nor heard a live viscacha. I didn't go to the very top, since I started worrying about getting down again. The vegetation was different from the Lachay downa - here there were lots of different