M F Smith 1991 JOURNAL Nov.21 Las Flores, Depto Maldonado Uruguay We left Maldonado on Monday morning in the department vehicle from the Facultad de Ciencias. The party consists of Noel Cortinas and Federico Hoffman, both masters students with Enrique Lessa; Leo Joseph, a post-doc in Enrique's lab, from Australia, Enrique, me, and Dito, the driver of the vehicle, who also cooks. We drove east from Maldonado along the coast to the small Town of Las Flores. We are using the country house of Enrique's parents as our base. After lunch we drove northeast to a site along the Arroyo El Renegado, 3 km E of Pan de Agua, Depto. Maldonado. Along the stream there was good riparian habitat, monte ribereño. We hiked with the traps across several cow pastures to get to the area farther downstream where we were going to set traps. Starting at an old ruined mill we set lines moving downstream. Federico and I set two lines of Sherman's with 20 traps each. One line was along the top of the hill along the edge of a grassy area in small rock outcroppings. The second line was along the hillside with traps in clumps of bushes. We also set 16 small snap traps and 2 large ones in the