5km S Bariloche, Rio negro, Argentina. Oct.27 Soft Rumboll's about 10 a.m. address to the Refugio Manager of the Club Andino. The club is in big lenga forest with clear understory, only scattered Berberis [other] gets of rotting logs, deep soft block humus. Some tootstools. Snow on shady side of the club building the leaves of the lenga just starting to open. Hilda Rumboll fire still no ashes. and all others agree that it is a cold wet spring, nov.12 much later than usual. Rolled logs and dug for Motomaps, They seem to leave earth cores in the snow like gophers do. A half-dozen small striped dizards played around a log where we had lunch. Then drove back towards Bariloche, crossed the river and camped in cyprus (Austrocedrus) at the foot of the long, ascending diagonal cliff about 5 km south of Barilocho. I put out 30 Museum speckled and 8 big Sherman's, some up in trees, most along the base of the cliff; good rocky places. Anita put 30 Museum speckles lower down in bushes (Berberis suffolia, vitro?, small cyprus, low clumps of lupine). Sort of like east-Sierra yellow pine country. In addition to cyprus are Ephedra, the greenthorn spinissima, and a few other broadleaf trees, plus smaller bushes. Started to drizzle about 6 p.m. Hilda Rumboll says birds have been resting around her house, Chingolo's singing etc. We heard only a few Chingelo songs, although we saw birds. The cold weather following a few warm days has probably shut them up.