they had recently cut through an ant nest (lap-cutter) and that down below the nest was a 1/2 meter snake. The nor not improved with number of mice around. byroad = 7km N. dried We stopped at 8:5 km about the bridge, where there is a rocky knoll, and put traps out among the rochead across the desert, which is quite sandy and contains coba de pelli, davaginilla, Senecio subulatus, bennalopus, Senecio molybi, and (nearly) nota torida! just like the Concha bajada. I put 18 Sherman and 25 MS; Ellen put 19 Sherman and 32 MS, Then drove down to the owl cliff where I put 7 steel traps for quivira pigs in sandy hummocks with big Senecio subulatus, between the road out the river. Set of digging, carnivore tracks, a few big rabbit tracks, but no carnivore droppings. Also about 6 MS. Then put 15 cage traps along the bottom of the owl cliff and a spring at the N.W end of the cliff, saw marmosa-likes dropping there. Ellen put 20 MS and 19 Sherman. Camped out in the flats among big Senecio. Put 6 more traps in a rock outcrop around camp. may 9 might deer, calm, no frost. The 6 traps around camp held 2 big Phylloctus (one of them giving birth) and one big pale Eligmodontia at the cliff (2 km N), 1 marmosa and 1 Phylloctus across the road in steel traps. Also, aminictas. In the rocks and