Pearson - 1997 2 nulliparous. Almost no scarring of the tails. Livers look fine. And, all except maybe the Geoxus were fat or very fat. Why would individuals of such disparate genera in fat condition with food in their stomachs fling themselves into the lake?? How come they all had hemorrhagic spots on the lungs? 4 November- Left 9 am for Villa Angostura where we stopped at the Park headquarters and talked with Parkguard Remorino (Tel 94-909 (944). He is an alumnus of the Mauricio Rumboll Parkguard school on Isla Victoria. Very interested in bamboo. He says there were lots of mice around his building and around town 2 or 3 weeks ago. He showed us a 10-gallon can buried flush with the ground on the edge of the beach that caught 150 mice every night. He didnt know of any blooming bamboo. Says the Provincial Health people and the local hospital have details. He directed us toward Parkguard Willink at Lago Espejo. Willink's grandfather was the famous entomologist at Instituto Lillo, his father not so famous. The Parkguard Station at Lago Espejo is a chacra with barn, cows, dog, etc. He had mice everywhere a month ago. They nested at the base of rosa mosqueta and ran up the branches . He poisoned them in the house, his dog caught some. He helped gather some on the beach with other parkguards In his barn was an almost- empty feed barrel with some oats in the bottom of it, plus 2 live Oligoryzomys, 1 recently dead Oligo, 3 dried corpses of Oligo, and 2 eaten bone skeletons. The Parkguards who gathered corpses on the beach at Lago Espejo Chico were Willink, Crosta, and Benevidez. Then drove to the camping ground at Lago Espejo Chico west of Ruca Malen. Walked along the gravel beach with a lugareno (grandson of the Administrator) and we found 2 corpses: an Auliscomys and an Abrothrix, not very stinky. He says:"lots of mice still run across the road at night. Chimangos, caranchos, vultures, and gulls ate carcasses on the beach, but not foxes; they are "in the woods". Pitched our tent in the campground along the river that drains Lago Espejo Chico into Lago Correntoso at Ruca Malen. Drizzle. Anita put out 20 MS AND 20