the nails of skunk size (see vol) (tineo?) Left about 10 for Tarata, all day was cloudy or cloudy-bright, even down in Tarata, and it seemed on the mountains south of Tarata; may have sound at yareto camp. Oct 6 Tarata, some light clouds. Ph. darwini in cage overnight ate cactus seeds (cushion cactus) and fruit, and some twigs of Jafido- Phylums, In afternoon given more Jafidos + cactus and Jafido galls, ate cactus seeds avidly, then flesh of fruit. No yareto seeds Obsdon aridus overnight ate cactus seeds; no evidence of Jafido, Savio's, or yareto seeds, In afternoon at broad feed, then cactus seeds. 2 pellets under a cliff near the yareto study area contained: (1) pure hummingbird feathers + feet (2) pure lizard scales. Also another mandible of a redvent and skull fragment and mandible of a small hystricomorph such as abrocoma, Oct 7 Tarata Oct 8 " . The cactus Obsdon aridus and Ph. darwini chilensis don't like Jafidophylum quadrupedae, but love seeds of cushion cactus, and darwini likes the fleshy part of the fruit also 5at. oct 9 Left Tarata 8:45 for Toca Tilbados desert; arrived 11:45. The trocavia green crumble-leaf burkels at Trok Cauts turnoff had been eaten to the ground. Put out corner stakes of a 150x150 grid and set 41 small 8harnesses and 30 large harnesses around periphery at 15-m spacing and 3 rows. No footprints of mine but lots of small feet and a few big dog. Sables under almost first rock/piled up for tent (not on study area). Eve clear, cold, in afternoon steady breeze from south Toca from [illegible] (Tarata).