Pearson - 1995 16 Miseria near the river west of the Hosteria, certainly a likely place for Hanta Virus. 2 December.- El Bolson. Sunny warm. Went to see Carlos Kovacs, the ornithologist/artist. His bird book is not yet published. He has a very nice little ornithological museum at his home on a back street of El Bolson. Male and female of every local secies, plus a lot from the Atlantic coast. Well mounted and displayed. Admission $2. He says that not more than 200 people have been to see it since the beginning of the year, including school children- whose classes have been cancelled off and on all year. He agrees that birds in this zone have become very scarce, and he doesnt know why. Only the Araucanian Pigeon has increased. His fathr, in his 90s, alert but not mobile. He says the Hanta victims were in the "suburbs". We did some more birding, this time on the slope east of town, mostly rosa mosqueta; saw almost nothing. At 11 a.m. went to the feria at the plaza. Lots of arts and crafts, including Larochette daughter-in- law selling jams and salsa, the mother from Bariloche, and another son (from Oakland California). Then drove to Lago Puelo National Park. All sorts of concessions, hosterias, hop farms, home lots for sale, inside the park, even a saw mill. The Parkguard Felix Vidoz, recommended by Kovacs, was not to be found....but it was Saturday. Vegetation was mostly rosa and willow, one bare-understorey forest of Patagua trees. The road to the Park from the town is paved part of the way. We returned to town in mid- afternoon. Heard bats after dark with the bat detector. 3 December.- El Bolson to Bariloche. Sunny and warm. Stopped at the La Veranada bamboo, then picnicked at the east end of Lago Guillermo. Lots of tuco sign, In the big meadow north of the road back to the bridge, the tucos are not out in the bunchgrass but seem to be concentrated at the base of Berberis bushes etc. A fire burning on the lower east slope of Cerro Otto. Home about 4:30. 4 December.- Bariloche. Sunny warm. Eileen and John came for lunch. They now hve sociabilis and haigii within 500 yards of eachother (on opposite sides of the Rio