Pearson - 1993 diverse, much like Cerro Leones but more grass. This location is 4.2 km by road east of the Civic Center. Then went to Adrian's study area on the Airport road. It is purer bunchgrass than I had remembered, plus a few rosa mosqueta etc. Then went to the airport and found a couple of dozen owl pellets in the usual row of pine trees. Clouds all around the horizon but clear overhead. 15 November- Clear; minimum 50. Went up to Ecotono and took out two male olivaceus to mate with their two female xanthorhinus. Veblen was there. He is working on die-back of lenga; says that trees with borers show slow growth. George Bartholomew visited here last January with his daughter Ksren, who is thinking of working on amancays. The botanist/ecologist Marcelo Aisen told me about Bart's visit. Fluecks visited in the afternoon, then Christie in the evening. He has submitted an abstract for a poster at the SAREM meeting: "Guano subfossil de roedor en cuevas del sud del Neuquen". He has collected owl pellets at the Bubo cave above Marful's gate. The lizards that he marked there showed an amazingly high survival a year later. He says there is amber in the first cave right by the curve in the road just upstream from Confluencia on the south side of the river. He has confidence in Bettinelli's field identifications at Somuncara. 16 November- Clear; minimum 45. Xeroxing at Gustavo's kiosk at the far end of the Faldeo. He is out of biology. Then drove on to Llao Llao bamboo clump and marked yearlings and 2-year-olds. Some coihues are with red blossoms. Then photoed the Eligmodontia capture site (Pampa Quemada) at the edge of the Piscicultura burn. Here are some mileages from the road signs along the Llao Llao road: Arroyo Gutierrez 10.5 km El Casco (hotel) 11.5 Marsh/Playa (windsurf) 12.2 Hipodromo 13.1 Wesley's 15.5 Aerosilla Campanario 17.6 Escuela Don Bosco 19.5 Peninsula San Pedro 20.4 Bellevue turnoff 24.6 Km 15.5 of the signs, to km 10.5 of the signs registered 4.7'km on our odometer. A geneticist Claudio . .. , a girl trapper friend of Julio Contreras, and Maria Marta Bunge? came by in