M.F. Smith 1993 JOURNAL El Peñasco, ~5 km N of Maldonado, Depto. Maldonado, Uruguay Nov. 18 along the coast towards San Ignacio looking for mounds of tucos tucos (Ctenomys gearsoni) in the sandy dunes along the coast. We set a few Macabee traps east of the mouth of the Laguna San Ignacio, then drove north and located a farm with Tucos about 5 km N of the lighthouse of San Ignacio. Here we found quite a few tucos mounds in one pasture, and Enrique and some students also set traps in the owners lawn. In the field we found the skin of an armadillo; and also an amphibian in a Ctenomys burrow. After we finished at the farm we also set some traps about 7 km further north. We caught 11 Ctenomys during this day, in spite of the rain and wind. We drove back to the house in the late afternoon. We split into two groups to set traps for sigmodontines. We had 100 Museum special snap traps, and 30 wire cage live traps on loan from a local group, one of whom was along on the field trip. One group set traps in a