Pearson - 1995 15 be Lestodelphys and Thylamys. Also a sharp- interorbital Phyllotine such as Graomys. November 29.- Read Tympanoctomys manuscript for Ojeda. Their diet is more varied than previously thought, but still largely salt-plants. aftNovember.- Talked with Graham Harris in Puerto Madryn. He wants a photo or video of Lestodelphys;he is still working on a book of Patagonian animals. Met Conrad Bailey on the street. He has built a casco at the ranch that was split off from Fortin Chacabuco. The new ranch is the upper part and might be an easy route to the high country where we think Euneomys mordax is living. Conrad says that Maiten trees and even espina negra all over the area are dying,doesnt know why. Eileen Lacey came by with a bag of owl pellets that John had collected up above their campsite. Also a dead sociabiis. It was one that they had tagged as a young one last season, also radio-collared. They had seen it acting sick for a couple of days, then found it dead. They sank it in the stream at their campsite to keep it cool. It was a female with big nipples but no milk expressible and no mammary tissue; two placental scars. The lungs had hemorrhagic patches, liver and kidneys looked OK. It also had a puncture wound on the rump with a round hemorrhagic patch in the skin around it. The colony that she is working on has 30 pups, plus adults. She is expectng only one big adult male in the colony. She got nocturnal activity in haigii across the river, but not in the sociabilis colony. Read tuco-digging manuscript for Giannoni, Borghi, and Roig. December 1.- Drove to El Bolson. Sunny and warm. 34km still unpaved, but nice wide roadbed. Lots of pine plantations. Checked into Hosteria Steiner. Lupine and buttercup and some rosa mosqueta in full bloom, and locust trees. All trees are exotics. On the slopes of the Cordillera to the east are lengas up high, and just below them a lot of dead trunks, both fallen and standing. A pine plantation below that. We went birding 5 to 7 p.m. through pastures, rosa, blackberries, poplars, willows, conifers, old fruit trees, and walnut trees and saw no birds in two hours (only lapwings and ibises on the lawn of the Hosteria). Walked through a very low-level Villa