Pearson - 1998 These two juveniles were hard to distinguish from Abro olivaceus. The bigger feet, fluffier fur, bigger eyes, and Microtine less pointy nose are diagnostic. A lot of my traps were at the piles of old logs, but not more than 5 to 10 meters from rosa, and or bamboo, Berberis, chaura, lupine, a few big overmature coihue trees. A few chauras had spherical lavender fruits, and a few Berberis darwinii had both flowers and mature blue fruits (from last season?). This locality on the map seems to be about 4 km ESE of the campground at Lago Espejo Chico, and about 1 km NW of the big chacra Hosteria 7 Lagos, or 3 km SE Ruca Malen. Comparcd with EspejoChico, the forest here is coihue instead of nire, there is more tall bamboo here, and of course there is lots of rosa here and almost none at Espoejo Chico. The rosa, incidentally, hardly ever has last year's fruits on it. In the idssected mice, most lungs were OK, none had tapeworm cysts in the liver, none were fat, and all were breeding or almost breeding. No juveniles except the two Loxodontomys above. Started home about 3 p.m., sunny, by way of Portezuelo and Villa Traful. The bamboo disappears abruptly long before you get down to Villa Traful. Spectacular even-aged stands of coihue with no understory. In several places large numbers of dead trunks strewn around as though there had been avalanches of snow or rocks. Several people were walking up toward our Cueva Traful when we went past. Also there werre 3 Mercedes and a BMW on the road between Confluencia and Estancia Primavera (Turner and Fonda ranch). The Alicura reservoir was very low, with sandbars etc. at Confluencia and for a km or so up the Limay from there in theValle Encantado. That most scenic spot has been ruined. The landcape along the Rio Limay between Confluencia and Lake Nahuel Huapi is pathetically dry. There are zillions of new pine trees planted on the east side of the Limay. It was the first day of the fishing season, with lots of cars on the road, but no squashed hares all day. Home at 7:30 p.m. Max-Min while we were away was 44-72. November 15- Bariloche. Clear all day. Went to the Fluek's new house above Lago Gutierrez. Log cabin type construction using cipres logs, cipres flooring, metal roof. Werner did most of the construction, and it is superb, many innovative features. Down below them, on the highway, is an old sawmill that ran on water power; I think some of the machinery is still there. He has been consulting on red deer at Estancia Chacabuco, owned by several European business men, including the owner of Quilmes beer. TheAdministrador is Peter Simpson's son-in-law, who seems to be listening (unlike Peter) when Werner tells him that the red deer have