Pearson - 1993 10 the afternoon. They are hoping to trap some tucos for genetic studies (DNA carried out in York, England). Andres Contreras has 3 or 4 children and is divorced; Yolanda is married but still living at Julio's house. Then dinner with Fluecks (brown trout from Rio Limay). 17 November.- Clear, minimum 45. Adrian came by with Emilio Budin, son of THE collector, Emilio Budin. Young Budin is 76 years old, was 7 years old when the family went on the collecting trip in the old Ford. He remembered all sorts of details, such as collecting at Pico Salamanca and catching Lestodelphys, and running out of food and shooting 5 doves and incorporating them in a polenta pie. He is going to show a historical video at the SAREM meeting. He is retired from a bank in Buenos Aires, has not been a biologist. Dinner with Patricia Fierro and Jorge Vallerini. Estancia Fortin Chacabuco has sold off the high country to some Italians, and Conrad Bailey is building them a lodge; it is to be managed for red deer. 18 November- Overcast, minimum 45. In the afternoon set the repeating rat trap in dense grass/sedge/rosa in the meadow at the south edge of Cerro Runge, between the cerro and the Faldeo road. Then hiked up to the top of a small hill south of the Faldeo, beginning where the road up Cerro Otto takes off from the Faldeo; it must be a part of Cerro Otto; called it Cerro Otto, 3440 ft.). The trail (and dirt road) go through scattered cipres, then it opens out into semi-arid habitat with cardon, espina negra, neneo, miner's lettuce, palo pichi, etc. No grazing. Cerro Runge is still solid cipres, but a small "bald" on top. Eleda Bettinelli came by with a few owl pellets. One pellet was from a cave low down on Cerro Villegas and contained a Reithrodon, an Auliscomys, and an Irenomys. It is the farthest east Irenomys that I know of. 19 November- Overcast. Nothing in the repeating trap in the Cerro Runge meadow. Hiked through the cipres forest to the top of Cerro Runge, which has a small "bald" with miner's lettuce, espina negra, calceolaria, etc., but not as extensive as yesterday on the shoulder of Cerro Otto across the Faldeo road from Cerro Runge. The cipres forest on Cerro Runge is almost pure, but there is quite a bit of grass/moss/miner's lettuce on the floor; not as dense as I remember the cipres near Christie's house, where I caught no mice at all. A few bush-sized nires low down in the forest. 20 November- Mostly clear; minimum 45. Eileen Lacey and John arrived, then Peg Smith on the plane. Picked up maybe