Pearson - 1993 14 and neneo, alternated 23 shermans and 23 MS, then 15 more MS, was untouched, all baits intact. Peg had 3 lines with 23, 23, and 21 traps, some of them in fairly pure bunchgrass, and the rest in mixed bunchgrass and neneo. She caught nothing. Anita had set 27 Sherms, 22 MS, and 1 repeating trap: caught one Matuaste lizard. Heard tinamous. Broke camp and drove back to Bariloche. Sunny. Saw 3 rheas on the INTA campo, and a DOR pichi armadillo near the Rio Pichi Leufu. Saw only 4 or 5 squashed hares on the whole trip to Comallo and back to Bariloche. Skinned the survivors in the afternoon. Summary of this excursion to Comallo: The vegetation at 10 km S Comallo was much more diverse, fields of blooming mustard, diverse bushes, little grases a couple of inches tall with seedheads everywhere. The birds were more abundant and more diverse. The area had been severely hit by the long drought, but was now comparatively lush. The mustard continued west to the schoolhouse on the Rio Comallo, but none after you begin to climb the grade to the west. The diversity of bushes going up the grade is great, but once up top you are reduced to the bunchgrass/neneo mix. Could the mustard and such diversity account for the Akodon sp. reaching so far west? and could the sterile neneo steppe be the barrier that separates the long-tailed and short- tailed Eligmodontias? Adrian Monjeau had notable non-success trapping at the Campo de Fistuladas (INTA) only a few miles west of our Campo General Roca site. 28 November- Minimum 50. Drove to Pampa Linda and part way back the road to Castano Overo. Stopped at Sigfrido's_ on Lake Mascardi and asked him about where Julio Contreras's "Aforo" might have been. He knew (and jangled) with Julio. Julio spent a month or so right at the Campimento next door to Sigfrido, who was away at the time. He has no doubt that that was the type locality of Akodon mansoensis. We checked in with the Park Guard at Pampa Linda, Domingo Nunez, then drove back toward Castano Overo, but the road was worse than ever and we only went about halfway, then camped in the nire scrub and set out trap lines for olivaceous at 4 p.m. My line went along the edge of the marsh but ondry land in nire forest plus bamboo clumps, calafate (Berberis), lightly grazed grass and clover and dandelion. No retamo, no rosa, no retama. Anita and Peg's lines