working in good habitat 3.6 km above the little flour on the railway. Followed the scraper making a fresh cut in larch/grass/maize for about 100 yards. Nothing. The driver said he sees a couple of sheep per day. Jimmied showed me the almond orchard with lots of mouse—siddled almonds under the tree, up in the trees, and in the weeds away from the tree. He sometimes in the dogtrees up in the tree, also a chunky mouse on the ground. Part of the problem is that he fertilized the tree and this cased a heavy crop of weeds such as sweet clover (no grazing in the orchard). He does not seem to have raccoons. Does have deer. With the son Walter and daughter-in-law Jane, both civil engineers. Day mostly sunny, drizzly in evening. May 7 Barloche. Mostly clear, morning. Javier Puentes came to talk about his problem—anyway. Doesn't seem to have made much progress, and didn't think my suggestion for measuring biomass of the rhizoma was practical because he doesn't have a team to help him nor transport! May 9 To Collier Creek with Ellen Pederson. Stopped at the two place 7 km beyond the Fortin Chocolo gate and found another !!, squashed Galactia there, 15 km up the Collier Creek. The redscrofa was mired in a mallow. One of the men, who seemed to be a good informant, said