Pearson - 1996 11 them. We hoped to get the key to the gate up to the Microwave tower to trap for Euneomys. Ended up camping at the First Summit (overlooking the Cerro Villegas mallin), which was full of splendid white- face cattle. Anita put out 26 Shermans and 2 steel traps between the road and the fence, in fairly bare, scattered bush habitat. I put 32 Shermans running from the fence up the hill through scattered cipres to the rock outcrop at the top of the hill. Mostly bare rocky scree, Colletia bushes, Berberis, big Palo Pichi, Ephedra, and cipres trees. Very little grass; no signs of grazing in recent years. Quite windy. Only my last few traps were among the big rocks at the top of the hill, where one would expect to catch Phyllotis. There is a fairly large rock overhang there, with a stash of firewood, lots of sheep droppings, but no owl pellets and saw no amber. 17 November - Slept under the cipres above the road, expecting the wind to die down after sunset. It didn't. We were buffeted in our sleeping bags all night, but not cold. No frost. My traps had 8 Ako longipilis, 1 Auliscomys, 1 Eligmodontia. Anita's traps had 5 Ako longi, 1 Auliscomys, and 6 short-tailed Eligmodontia. Some of the Ako longi looked small, young?. Warm winter? It would not have seemed to be good habitat for Auliscomys, or for Ako longi. Trap success 38%!! 18-November - Oswaldo Ramirez, the Peruvian working for a PhD with Milton Gallardo, showed up in the late afternoon to look at the three specimens of Aconaemys sagei that I had brought down for him. He reports that Milton has a girl student working on the post-quila- bloom ratada. She is working out at the San Martin study site, and so are Murua and Gonzales, but there is no communication between the two groups. 19 November - Ramirez continued his inspection of the Aconaemys. He seems to think that there is enormous variation within groups of specimens from any one locality, and is not sure that there are indeed three species as postulated by Gallardo and Reise. He thinks more karyotypes are needed, especially in the north where sagei and fuscus may meet. Milton's specimens of sagei from Quillen are all juveniles. Went to Parques to see if they could locate the specimen of sagei that I left with them. They thought