hystrixorhis droffings caught 1 small guinea pig. a windstorm came up during the night and cooled things off. In morning there was a curious yellow haze all the way to Catausrea. nothing in Carol's traps. DO R draump & last. Dec. 22 about 60 traps in thorn coetue and in a grassy gully in an oliv grove caught nothing. Carol + Anta about 50 more in thorn- coetus caught nothing. To Chumbila, + back. Dec. 23 met vinco + Lynn morres in Chumbela and drove to the pass between Chumbela and waagan. Caught in cold it probably ecstone between chaco and monte. lots of thorn trees, brushes including jarraa, cardon, and spiny- leaved ground brocketade, saw tinamous and small gray pot. no people for miles. 4 put traps at a small rocky outcrop, along a dry wash, and 2.1 miles down the road toward chumbela at two rocky talus slides. Anta + Carol /put traps clew in thorn, grass, low opuntia, mesguery, and talus. clear + warm: Dec. 24 17 km NW Chumbela, 3750ft. The traps down the road went out 16 lam NW "', 3500ft. Camp is near bwn 1145. night clear calm. Carol caught 1 phi. darwin in rock slide with cardon fronded, Anta 1 brocamp in ground opuntia, and I caught 1 abodon in talus and 4 phyllothe darwin in talus, at 6:30 put out Dec. 25 68 traps up the road in jarraa, cardon, and low opuntia (equal numbers of H's, small glormans, ad small folding shermens). Carol+ Anta also put out about 20 large shermans red. This is 5 miles up the road at 4400 ft. Also about 20 traps in a brushy gully 2.6 miles up the road at 4100ft. Carol + Anta set here later. Anta + I also had about 20 traps earlier near camp, mine mostly in a talus