Partly cloudy, no wind. Dec. 6 Pangado H manuelo. Rantrofe. At 10 pm, 12 pm, and 6:30 a.m. Were tracked, spotlighted for about 1/2 mile at midnight, saw nothing. Night mostly clear, moon almost full, touch of frost. Day sunny, little wind. Between 4 and 6 Pm put traps across flank of Cerro Grover and along bottom of the cliff. Set 10 cage traps: 38 big Sherman + cati, and 38 MS + corn meal; 3/4s of them along the cliff, the rest across the "stoppe". Vegetation includes Bassia, flowering Polo bush, and flowering Cebolla. Cebollaria in flower, Anta's fruit 55 95 Sherman and 34 MS across the lower slope. Searched for owl pellets but found no new ones and saw no owls. Walked over the pig farm. Vegetation on the slopes of Cerro Grover giants green bush. Dec 7 Day cool, clear. Picked up traps at 8 a.m. About 20 traps had been stolen from my line and from Anta's, so her line ended up with 28 MS and 28 Sherman, my line with 7 cage, 33 Sherman and 34 MS. My line held 1 dead Phyllotis (MS) and 4 live Phyllotis (Sherman), one of them a juvenile of about 25 g. Anta's line held 2 live also panther and 4 dead x The Phyllotis was a 50-g breed, B. Asked about traps at nearby houses and at a school near the RR station (Mirida?). Recently our bamboo clumps on Cerro Otto. New shoots just emerging, yearling shoots beginning to leaf out. Our two