not been remarkably cold. July was 2° warmer than usual, but September (or was it October?) only ½° colder than usual. This apple trees in bloom, Berberis linearifolia past peak of bloom, B. darwinii just reaching peak, and B. persei flooding forest with scent. Scotch thorn in Barboche coming along but not full bloom; Vitex on ov. Vitre just starting. Comments on grid: From a distance one can see on our south-facing slope a rather stark drupa/cadus contact with little mixture. Our grid, that has composed of almost equal numbers, must be relatively rare. Re-assessment: indicates bamboo up to 14 ft tall and B. linearifolia bare up to 14 ft. A big bamboo is 22 mm diam. at its base. at the east end of the switchbacks I stepped into the under- story to take a photo and found myself in Chorus and Desfontainea. The grid has some chorus, but little if any Desfontainea. My relatively sterile traps are fairly often cadus without much bamboo did have a few plants of Euchria magellanica; that was north-facing. None on grid. On or near the grid we saw or heard all three Rhinocryptis. Summary of pit traps: 12 on grid for 4 nights caught nothing. Baited with oats, then oat and mouse carcass. Three other pits in bamboo on Anita’s line for 2 or 3 nights caught 1 also longi. When we showed Maurice Rumloff our specimens of Droniciops, he said it was totally different from the live Droniciops he had last year, caught somewhere