eating papaya at bat-flying time, an army officer, loaded by rifle barrel peaking over a rise 20yds away, strode into camp and wanted to see our documents! cloudy at 6 pm, clear by 9, clouded again in the middle of the night, then clear at its morning. Dec. 9 all day on the Sucre road. Goes into almost-all-flower country between Cobas and Epigonus. Epigonus to Sucre is mostly their samb; a curious "savannah" of bare red earth and stones with widely scattered trees of many kinds including mulato, acerola, etc. Enough rain so that everyone is plowing and planting corn (behind thorn-branch fences). Some corn three high and in a few places, especially along the Rio deando or one of its tributaries, ready to shake. The town of Totoro is burning, all tile roofs. In the absence of adequate any sort map of Bolivia, we bought a big wall-map in Cochabamba. It turned out to be ludicrously absurdly inaccurate. It rained a few sprinkles during the day. Confied along the river at about 1km45 from Sucre in bare-ground thorn forest. Overcast, We didn't actually see many geats during the day, but lots of browse lines and absence of ground cover in spots of enough rain to rice corn. Put out about 25 small skimmers at 6 pm in a dry wash with thorns, larger trees, right shining cardelobra cacti, and spring ground lavender-botz. Dec. 10 Nothing into after. B numerous flying around camp at night. Drove to Sucre then towards Potosi but turned south before Potosi to Chuna. South of Chuna is a particularly good sample of the country