Pearson - 1997 1 Journal 1 November- Arrived Bariloche about 4 pm with Anita, met at airport by Michael Christie and John. Mike was about to board a plane to BA. Our flight to Miami and BA was on time, then we sat on the runway for a half our at BA waiting for a tug. This made our connection at the downtown airport iffy. Don't ever tell an Argentine taxi that you are in a hurry. Bariloche was very warm and summery, no wind. The marsh above Estancia El Condor green and with lots of water in it. Lots of snow on the peaks. Eileen and John have just arrived, lots of tucos on their study site. Eduardo Ramilo has frozen some mouse carcases for us. The town of Bariloche seems empty. 2 November- Bariloche. Temp mild, cloudy, not windy. Abel Basti came by and helped jump the battery, but my car would not start, motor locked up or?? Towed to ACA. Coffee with Mr and Mrs. Baratta. His father came to Bariloche in 1902, grew potatoes. They don't have much to say about previous bamboo blooms. Everyone has heard of a mouse outbreak at Villa Angostura, but no agreement on bamboo blooming. Ran into Miguel Gross on the street. Gallopin has moved from Colombia to Stockholm. 3 Nov.- Bariloche. Cloudy all day. Went to the Delegacion Tecnica of Parques and saw Chehebar, Ramilo, Miguel Gross, and Gustavo Iglesias. Delivered his computer, got a collecting permit, and talked about the mouse eruptiion at Villa Angostura. Ramilo gave me three sacks of frozen mouse carcases picked up at Lago Espejo Chico by two park guards. No one seems to know of any blooming bamboo to account for the mouse high. Got my car back from the Auto Club at 5 pm., then dissected one sack of frozen carcases. The score was 25 Oligoryzomyz, 1 Irenomys, 5 Auliscomys, 1 Abrothrix longipilis, and 1 Geoxus (plus two headless corpses with tails that looked like Irenomys and/or Auliscomys. All were fat, all with hemorrhagiic lungs, almost all with at least some food in the stomach, none in breeding condition. One female with visible nipples and one with scars in the uterus; one male with regressed testes. All the others apparently