Pearson - 1997 14 Talked with his wife. Then on to Lago Espejo Chico. Walked the beach but found only one mouse, a decomposed Oligoryzomys. Talked with Marcelino. He says that after the bamboo bloom of 1944? there were many more mice than now. Then camped at our campsite near the river and put out traps. My line through nire/chaura/bamboo/berberis in untrapped terrain, plus a repeat of 9 traps along part of my line from November 5. Anita put out a line through similar habitat, plus a piece through coihue forest that is fenced against the cows. My line: 36 Shermans, 5 MS, 5 metal argentine snap traps. Anita's line 36 Shermans and 18 MS. Total 100 traps. Day was crystal clear, no clouds, warm, no wind. Anita saw a large bat at dusk. 24 November- Night was clear, calm; frost on car and on our sleeping bags. The nine traps on my old line caught only one mouse, The total score was: snap traps 12 Oligo, 1 Abro oliv, 2 Abro longi. Shermans: 18 Oligos (we released one of them), 1 oliv, 9 longi. Totals: 30 Oligo, 2 oliv, 11 longi = 43 mice in 100 traps. Home at 4 p.m. after dropping off a progress report at Dr. Garcias's house in Villa Angostura. Day was sunny and plesant. Max-min for past several days in Bariloche is 43-74. 25 November- Morning cloudy, afternoon windy, sunny. Finished the mice from Lago Espejo Chico. Note that all the Oligos killed by monoxide had good lungs, but also, all the longipilis killed by monoxide had spotty lungs. Also, the nine Abro longi caught in Shermans were females. Two of them with spots in the uterus but the pelvis not open; none with pink follicles or big vaginas. At our campsite at Espejo Chico the cows were browsing on low branches of nire, not on bamboo. The nire leaves were almost but not fully out. Went out to INTA and talked with Bonino, Javier Bellati, and Carlos Bustos, who is in charge of the weather records. He gave me an update on the weather records for the past dozen years. Their instruments are on the grounds of the Inta station on the Lake across the road from Las Victorias. Note that we have not caught a single Chelemys so