Pearson - 1998 12 overgrazed the habitat. The ranch used to run 20,000 sheep, now they have none; Werner thinks they may have as many as 10,000 deer. November 16- Bariloche. Overnight low 44, afternoon high 69. Sunny all day. Tire repair, real estate (Heidy). and Eileen, John, and Lisa came by. Eileen says the tucos are running late this year, unlike the Notro trees, which are 2 to 3 weeks early early this year. They have a Gerhonaetes nest near their camp, with young in it. John told about seeing a tuco and a Reithrodon emerge from the same hole near the pine trees on the Estancia Fortin Chacabuco driveway. That was a couple of years ago. November 17- Bariloche. Minimum overnight 45°, max during day 83° sic. Everybody talking about the heat. Sold the apartment. Maybe the car. November 18- Bariloche. Went up to the University to see Dora Grigera or Carmen Ubeda. Neither was available but talked with the two owl-pellet girls. They are struggling with trying to te ll Bubo from Tyto pellets. They have been getting pellets from an owl at La Lipela, lots of tucos but all are haigii, I told them that sociabilis is diurnal, so they figure that their owl is crossing the Rio Lijay. Their owls in general have been catchinv very few Reithrodon. Day sunny and warm. At 5:30 p.m. drove to the east end of the lake and set traps in the flats between the highway and the lake. This is where the Rio Nirihuau empties into the lake. There are a few low marshy places with water, but mostly it is grassy bushy with willows. Some parts seem to be heavily grazed by horses, but other parts very dense grass with weeds such as dock, ungrazed. Lots of Rosa, numerous chacay bushes and trees, lupine just coming into bloom, Scotch Broom, Berberis, a few Colletia, a few Adesmia, some poplar trees, and willows along a low drainage. Many Acaena, no neneo, a few palo pichi. I put out 22 MS and 22 Shermand; Anita put out 25 MS and 25 Shermans. She saw lots of Reithrodon droppings and at least one busy Reithrodon hole while setting, plus signs of rosa fruits being eaten and leaves of lupine cut by mice. By the time she had finished setting out her line, about sunset, she had caught three Abro. longi. in Museum Specials. Near the end of the road in, shere we camped, is a sandy ridge maybe 2 m high; it had nurnerous tuco borrows in it. I set 5 steel traps in these burrows. Evening clear, calm, warm. November 19- Heard no owls during the night; Cerro Villegas and Cerro Leones not far away. A Marsh Hawk was hunting in the morning. Anita's 25 MS caught 1 Oligoryzomys, 1 new Abro longi plus the three last night (the traps were reset), and 5 Loxodontomys. Her 25 Shermans