Pearson - 1996 24 tan the other, but both were pregnant, 5 embryos each. The two Akodons had put on fat during their 4 days in captivity. 15 December - Last night minimum 55, max yesterday 72. Morning sunny. Sage went north with Christie. The two captive Auliscomys did not eat Scotch broom seed pods. One of them ate no sheep droppings; the other not tested. Later in the day, one of them gave birth to 4 young. She made a neat nest of newspaper shredded into long thin strips only about 2mm wide. At 6 p.m. drove out to the First Summit and put 36 Shermans up at the top of the hill all the way around the rock outcrop. Lots of good places for Phyllotis. Some wind on the west side of the hill, none in the east side. Released the Auliscomys mother and her four young under a rosa mosqueta bush. She had not eaten her sheep droppings. 16 December - Morning partly cloudy then cleared up before 10 a.m. Ran traps at 8:30. They held 1 Phyllotis adult male, 1 baby Phyllotis almost dead in the trap, 4 Akodon longipilis, 1 Auliscomys. 36 traps. Released the leftover captive Akodon longipilis, who seems to have eaten a thin crust of the outside of one sheep droppiiing. Lunch with Eileen and John. John and Tommy had found several more colonies of tuco high in the Cuyin Manzano; one of them at 1800 m., one of them in a bushy Adesmia habitat. They had been eating the Adesmia. John reported catching 11 young sociabilis out of the same hole or close by. Also, their marked haigii had survived since last year; almost all of them. 17 December - Overnight low 52. Sunny, not windy. Went up to IV Sanitary Zone office. They reported almost 50% trap success at Lago Puelo (with Jim Mills), lots of Oligoryzomys. They have been trapping also from Melipal through Bariloche to the airport. Apparently no reports yet on whether any of their catch tested positive for Hanta virus. They dismantled the heater/air conditioner of the vehicle suspected of infecting the latest Hanta patient, but found no mice, no nest. Rachel Wells is in El Bolson interviewing people. Dinner with Patricia and Jorge Vallerini. 18 December - 24-hour max-min: 55-72.