Pearson - 1995 Laguna los Juncos with Barnoskies and Michael Christie. He released one of his lizards up on the slope across from Marful's meadow, then we went up to the big cave. Liz saw one viscacha. Only a couple of owl pellets in the cave Liz thought there still could be some profitable digging in the cave. Then we drove with the Barnoskies out to 10km S Comallo and looked along the rimrock near the mima-mound field. Tons of viscacha droppings, but we didn't see any viscachas. Liz found a big deposit of amberat in a small overhang near the north end of the cliff, more abundant than any in the Limay and Traful caves of a couple of years ago. Some of it was weatherd, but some shiny black. She said it was just like packrat amberat. Some urine odor. There were also small carnivore droppings lying nearby. Assorted recent mammal bones lying near the base of the cliff, including Reithrodon and armadillo. We had looked along this rimrock 2 years ago with Peg Smith, but had not gone quite this far north. Why no amberat in other similar places along the rimrock? Leafcutter ants carrying seeds of a very spiny desert shrub. Some Stillingia. Tony looked for fossils in a pale bare area across the road and found numerous scraps of small Notungulate?, he thinks probably Miocene and says the giology looks just like Montana. In fact, the Barnoskies cant get over how much the landscape all around the Limay and the steppe is like Montana. We all then hunted for bones on another bare slope about a quarter-mile north but found only a few scraps. I walked across one of the mima areas. One mound had a burrow opening right on top, others had one or more openings on the side, but not clearly tuco. When we were here with Peg Smith, there was tall lush green vegetation so high that you could not make out the mounds, but now everything is very dry, mostly bare gound, a few weeds here and there, some with flowers. No fresh tuco sign. We picnicked on the INTA Campo Anexo land on the road back to the clausuras, hoping to see rheas, but none, and saw none from the road on the way home. Gas in Comallo, coffee break in Pilcaniyeu, then a spectacular view near sunset of 15 condors perched on a big vertcal cliff right along the road at Arroy La Fragua east of Marful's. 7 adults and 8 juveniles. Then at the usual