Pearson - 1997 23 of forest as Nov. 22 (5 km W Llao Llao Hotel) My line repeated part of Anita's line of 22 Nov, lots of it on the edge of trail in rosa mosqueta. her line was in forest and in rosa at edge of clearings. Total traps 21 MS and 72 Shermans. No rosa blooming, Scotch Broom in full bloom. Looked for tineao trees but saw none and no seed heads washed uyp on beaches. Then camped at our usual spot in the bamboo on Lago Perito Moreno among the big coihues and cipresses. 9 December- Night was warm, calm, clear. Jacklighted about 100 m along a bamboo trail, saw small white moths and one bat. Heard barn owl once. Picked up traps at 7 a.m.: MS 6 Oligos, 1 Abro longi. 3 Abro oliv, 1 Auliscomys. Shermans: 7 Oligos, 14 Abro longi, 3 Abro oliv. (one of them maybe something else. Total trap succs 35 animals in 93 traps = 38%. Trap success for 13 Oligo = 14%. Stopped at Bahia Lopes to process the mice and for lunch. Home at 1 p.m. Sunny and warm. Max-min since yesterday was 54-80. The mice still are not breeding on the Llao Llao peninsula! Anita received a reply from Natalie Goodall regarding a ratada in Tierra del Fuego. On 7 December she replied: "The mouse explosion here was last year, August and September 1996. It is usually in winter or early spring here, when there is still snow. My great-granddaughter and I counted 460 on the road on one trip from Harberton to the Ruta 3 (45 km). They were mostly in a 10 km stretch but there were at least some everywhere. They had a good time with my specimens in my bone house. "People have lots of stories of the periodic mouse explosions. This one seemed to follow the exceptionally difficult winter of 1995... "We did not have an over-abundance of mice this year." Her E-mail address is: [email protected]. The local mammalogist is Dra Marta Lizzaralde at CADIC., who can be contacted through Adrian Schiavini. In the afternoon visited Adrian. He had gone to Puerto Blest yesterday, but wouldnt tell us what for. He and Inez were packing for their move to Mar del Plata. When they returned from Minnesota they had