nov.23 Barbados, Sectured on South American desert mice to my grandson and Prof. Pabstford. nov.24 Left at 11 p.m. for Sa Veranada, no signs of flowering of laurels. Many recently dead + dried clearings. Others with yearling culms. No shoots yet, but they can be found below ground by digging. Lots of signs of digging and tunneling by tucan and/or Cholamp. 3 at 8 Rathtro traps at open holes in green-yan meadows laid with sunflower seed and cheese. Measured one clump of scrubby laurels. Saw 1 turo (?), briefly, heard none. Saw no Rathtro droppings, accompanied by Anita, Peter, Karen, + Justin. The fire is pretty well logged out and in bloom. nov.25 Evening mostly cloudy, morning drizzly, not cold. The 8 traps held 1 Andisony adult. Since they were not over the holes and could be entered only from below, the andisony must have been using the galleries. It to Dandelion flowers immediately, did not eat cheese, no recent wild pig damage, no recent horse droppings, little evidence of recent grazing on the laurels. Fallen limbs in the large forest squashed lots of laurels across the trail. nov.26 Clear + warm. Collected owl pellets at the cliff at Tchial Meld. nov.27 Partly cloudy. Left at 10 a.m. for Rio Cartano Obrero, arrived at our old campsite 12:30. Rain persistently low, 4 species of Berberis in full bloom. Heavy browsing on laurels by horses, both near the campsite and upon the hill at our grid. The horse droppings not fresh.