being cultivated for corn and also: the ground stoney and bare bare bare. How come enough rain for corn, but nothing else grows? canvles in an almost bare area with folds, caeti and a few acacia trees near Otavi. Dec. 11 Rain during night. Drove along valley thru Camargo etc. Flat English parsons tire in playa of Abecia. Stopped for the night in a broad dry wash & with many nice big acacias and some bushes in the flats and many kinds of cactues, polo verde, and various thorns on some hillsides. Other hillsides bare. Put 24 small Sherman among bushes up a dry wash, and 12 more plus 5 large Sherman on cactus hillside. Night partly foggy. Anita & Carol put about 50 day sh. Dec. 12 Foggy at 5:30 a.m. but clear by 6:00. 2 phyllocas along side bushes in the dry wash, but nothing among cactus. Both Anita & Carol had found ? Octodon trops? droppings among cactues, and good holes, but caught nothing. Our camp is between La Carvera (a bridge) and what appears to be a long upgrade toward Saccachyapi (Village Tarija), 10,000 ft & Drove thru Sacacachyapi though rich cactus then bunchgrass, then toward Villagon - Ju Quisosa through spectacular steep stoney canyons. Arrived Villagon about 3 p.m., got through cactuses at 6. Collected 4 lizards on stone/ plains near 2 lakes with flamige [illegible] of Villagon. Camped on open plains about 10 miles south of Sa Quisosa. Dec. 13 Light rain during night. Drove to Teloso and camped among willows, molle, bushes, & fields 1/2 mile north of the town. Set about 50 small and large Sherman along walls in the town on three separate pieces of trap line. Some molle trees, some willows, some Lombardy poplars. Anita & Carol put traps along walls in the dry wash (Sorgante del Diablo), and Peter put traps along the cemetery walls.