down about 10 km ENE Pucusaaro, 250m. Some big yellow lilies and many other species of flowers blooming (Trodscantoa, Begonia, sorrel, etc.). Thousands of little seedlings just coming up, blue moss, lots of lobelia, and acres of the thalgal seaweed x Several corals of stone. Kids put out about 65 unseen specials. Road crossing at 8pm to about 6am. 75. Saw one mouse, probably Phyllostis, which took refuge under a rock and then escaped. Also a mouse peering out of a hole under a roadside ledge. We probably cruised about 5 miles of desert slowly and another 5 miles faster of desert and cultivation faster. The Tillandsia patch 8 miles SE Chica had lots of wolf spiders, mostly in the Tillandsia, some along the road, very few in the bare desert between. July 4 Dreast but little gerna. Trafos up the canyon from here (10 km ENE Pucusaaro, 250m) caught only 1 Oryzomys fautulus. The 10 live trafos in the Quebrada Cruz de Heves (5 1/2 km NE San Bartolo) caught nothing. Carlos saw tracks of one mouse and fresh tracks of Burchina? [illegible] way out into pure sandy dunes on the south side of the valley. Myself found another 40m shell and it had a gecko in it. (=3 shells found, 2 of them with geckos in them x We have now freed operated scores of spiderholes and exploded dozens of granite boulders and found only 2 other geckos (in holes, one of them machine gun mode). Why don't they use the mud