Oct.27 Tarata Oct.28 Drove to Hda. Pairumaini (Ountare) and camped roughly about 100 yds south of our 1946 campsite. Drive took most of day, a good between Challepales + stretch of mixed Festuca - plus north of, Mesguarung, and lots of good alfalfa pastureage. Saw no deer or turamure or vicuñas. Weather somewhat overcast. Benson caught 12-14 web trant. minimum) 24° Oct.29 Put out icln grid 8x12 rows with 15-m spacing. Fairly heavily grazed and, in scale of some rock outcrops, it contains some fairly bare patches, probably "typical" of the area. Later p.m., the owner dropped in; Sra - Gonzalen arriet, sister of the owner of Hda. Pairumaini. She says we are on Hda. Ountare and that it has not been nationalized. Various people fired without great success. small shernus Put q traps around adobe brick piles near camp. Slight overcast all day. Oct.30 Minimum 20°, mostly clear but not entirely. 9 live traps caught 1 osibol and 1 Colomys dullele, and 2 osibos, 1 berdepechhi, 1 duelle, mostly near grid. Anita's live traps in gulley caught 3 osibol; Benson's snags traps caught 1 Ph. sublimis, 2 akabon bolin, and 4 osilos, Later in the morning this line caught 2 Blomyc amvencuse and 2 ammoune got caught on the grid between 6 and 9 a.m. Moon 3/4 or 4/5 full. Day about half cloudy - bright. Oct.31 Cleared up overnight; minimum 4° F. Benson with 30 snags traps at base of a cliff north of camp caught 4 osibol. Anita with 17 large shernus at the base of the cliff shown in the altiplano paper caught 1 Colomys berdepechii and 1 Ph. osibol. Benson + Anita drove yesterday to the Pampas de Qwelleto in search of Ctenomys peruanus. They found old old burrows but nothing fresh and heard none.