MF Smith 1974 JOURNAL Fundo San Martin, comuna San Jose, Provincia Valdivia Chile Dec.8 Flora Silvestre de Chile, zona araucana, by Adriana E. Hoffmann 1982 Fundacion Claudio Gay 258 pp. After dinner we watched the swallows in the clearing next to the house. The swallows were replaced by bats as the light faded. We could hear at least three different kinds of frogs calling from the river. Dec.9 We got up at 8:00, had breakfast, and went to check the traps. We caught 4 Abrathy divaricus, three in Shermans and one, (a juvenile) in a snap trap. We processed the animals at the field station. We saved frozen liver and kidney for me, as well as liver in alcohol. In addition we saved a piece of liver to freeze for Claudia, one of Milton's students. They are accustomed to using cactus spines for the legard tail of the study skins. After lunch Pedro brought in some plant specimens that we looked up in the book of Chilean trees, shrubs, and vines. Later we went on a hike to look at trees on the way to one of Pedro's trap lines. We saw a hummingbird nest with two young in it. We put more bait in the traps in the late afternoon, then had dinner. After dinner Pedro and I walked through the woods