Malleo. Long bleak landscapes next. But the road is all paved. As you approach the road drops down rather precipitously through a valley which opens out onto the seaside ledges that lie the coast here. Large deposits of chalk visible in places, and after a survey of the situation he caped at a place near where they are mining the chalk. Stopped just in time to get at a gust trap, and the "male cap" in the dark. It was a really still night, without sound of birds pealing us. Pleasantly cool. 15 large field-sheep with oatmeal; card=0 March 20, 1974 Repacked our possessions for quieter N. Malleo to officious this morning and then drove into Wednesday Malleo to meet local ornithologist Robert Hughes. He was going to be our local advisor on loros, but he had trouble communicating. So we left head, south, looking for either one intact loro not too far above sea level or a sea level place to catch some Phyllodoce darwinii. We drove south beyond Mejia, and then started north again. Finally ended up in a fairly narrow rocky canyon north of Malleo. It was once one kind of flat, but now abandoned. The problem in locating a place was finding rocks mostly the surface is smooth and fairly sandy. There is lots of chalky dust here - which makes for good tracking. There are some low wide