Pearson - 1995 14 hiking up in the high country and found lots of sociabilis in the rolling country up high, sort of between Paso Coihue and La Lipela. Some of them were on dry slopes not at all like the typical habitat. He also brought samples of droppings that look like Euneomys mordax from across the road from Estanica La Primavera, on the west side of the Cullin Manzano River, up high. Many of his new sociabilis colonies were living in, and eating a sticky, small compound-leafed, yellow-flowered legume. Maybe an Adesmia? One of his localities was about a km nearer Cueva Traful than the La Lipela site. Sociabilis female 8113 died in captivity and was kept cool submerged in the stream at their campsite for 2 days. The two frozen specimens that Michael delivered and that had the hemorrhagic lungs were ones found dead last January. I think Eileen said that one of them was a radio-collared one, and that they had found other hemorrhagic ones this season. John found a gaucho in the Cullin Manzano who knew that the tucos there were different from the ones across the Limay. Dolly Frey's daughter has a museum at La Longha, with Indian artifacts, animals, etc. Phoned Brian Hjelle to tell him that I could not arrange to bring him specimens from El Bolson for Hanta Virus studies. He had met recently Dr.Silva from the Virology Institute in Pergamino, an associate of Dr Enria, who said there had been two cases among nutria trappers on the Rio de La Plata. Dr.Enria did not say anything about it in her talk at the SAREM meetings. November 28.- Sunny and warm all day. Went to Parques office to get Graham Harris phone number. Gallopin has published a two-volume ecology of the world, published in Japan by the United Nations University in Mexico. Parques has a file of recent weather data for this region, published by a privatized successor to Hidronor. Gustavo wants an article on mima mounds for SNAP. Werner Flueck came by. Confirmed that poachers had killed huemul up the Nirihuao Valley, and Eduardo Ramilo at Parques had even found a recent puma-killed huemul up there. Werner has found red deer tracks on the west side of Lago Gutierrez. He says that huemuls have never been kept successfully in captivity. Dissected owl pellets from Onelli. There seem to