about wet and dry seasons is very definite about the seasons in the coffee country (2 wet seasons, one in fall ending before Xmas and one in spring) and at Barrangville (1 six-month dry season beginning about january). He doesn't know about this region. Savage says that there was a lot of rain just before I came and Smith says there were many heavy rains while he was in Mera June 28 to July 3. There was less than 1/4 inch during this time at our camp 7-1/2 km. E Villarejo. Returned to camp in late afternoon and set out 54 traps (museum specials with oatmeal) some in woodlands, most in brush bordering it. Focelighted about 1-1/2 miles down the road toward Rio Calaver across woodlands and through thorn scrub, then back up a dry wash through forest. Saw no mammale until back in camp where I shot Morrozo 15 feet up in a tree over the trickle that is our water supply. July 12 Nothing in traps. Many baits gone (ants?), only 1 spring. Went probing into crannies in walls of quebradas in morning. Saw no bats, a few bat droppings, one rabbit in one of these crannies and one rabbit out in the open. Took photos of woodlands near camp to show kind of terrain in which mammals are lacking. Put out 30 Museum specials and 1 Schnyler along a stone wall in these woods bordering a large quebrada that contains a trickle of water for a few hundred yards. These woods not very thorny, many plants rather broad-leaved. All traps along stone wall or on linke, all baited