not singing. Parrots feeding on apples & pears at Estuque below & Selague. Selague. Everything very dry - no rain for 3 months. This region plagued with hydatid cyst (dog & sheep - human). Sort. it falling infected dogs. at 5:30 pm The attic of Selague was about 65-70°. I saw no bats, but Anta saw one flying which we could not re-catch and assume flew outside (not dark outside until 8pm). At 7:30 put nets across the doorway in two of the brick partitions that divide the attic into sections. Checked nets at 10:00 and 12:30 - nothing. April 24 Nothing in the nets at 8 a.m., although one of them had a hole in it where a bat had chewed its way out, just getting light at 7:45 a.m. No bats seen in several of the entire attic. Charles Vos MacKinnon MacKinnon say that this is not only a dry autumn but unusually warm, peace roses still blooming & no good frost yet. The Indians at Selague still celbrate an annual araucano - Inca festival called the Camaruco. Left at 9:15 and drove to El Toro, about 4 dead horses on the road. South of Espuyen enters the road for Chilia - Espuyen is a place where the steppe (faldeo) vegetation matan-Selague becomes unusually rich and the first wild roses appear. It is clearly a sharp meeting of steppe & foothills, a not-bad camping place about 4 1/2 miles down toward Espuyen along a stream. Stopped in El Toro and talked with Antonio Mayorga, He said the mystic colony in his barn was more abundant than ever this past summer. I climbed up to the barn roof but saw and heard none. He also reported seeing a large