Pearson 1981 Oct.29 arrived Santiago midday and went to the Natural History Museum. Yáñez was in the field (Frey Jorge) but Michel Gallaberry A. (ornithologist) and Hernán Yáñez C. (a herpetologist) showed me around the wonderful old grand-manner building. Could find no specimen of alcedo sanborni. A quite ambitious series of north-south Chilean dioramas is in preparation. Left with train at 6:30 p.m. for Osorno. Santiago hillsides seem much drier than Orinde at comparable season, mustard in flower. Further south lots of apple, cherry, Paulownia, etc in bloom. Arrived Osorno 9:30 a.m., Train very comfortable, with Pullman, diner. Left Osorno 10:30 by bus. Some snow along the road at the pass. Vines with new tender leaves, the higher laurels still bare. One place with laurel wooded with hoarded lichen. Fuchsia not flowering, none of the 3 spp. of bambuco flowering. Arrived Baraleco about 4:30 after about an hour delay at frontier and ½ hour lunch at Villa Augusta x Nov.1 at 4 o'clock put 35 Sherwood in Lenga forest on Cerro Otto, same line as a year ago. Anita put 34 big Sherwood on her old line. Pure Lenga, amaryllis, Berberis darwinii in bloom, Rhoeo in bloom. Windy drizzly. I put 5 traps near an isolated clump of bambuco with a deep build-up of dry bambuco leaves in and around the clump. The only bambuco on my line; all other traps along fallen logs. Anita had only one small clump of bambuco on her line. She saw mature Boi-bois in a Lenga tree.