the nights nov.1 To Sico Sico in the morning, warm clear and color, and choked bamboo, new shoots just coming up; Chaco's friendly + fearless. Then to Estacion Perito Moreno in the afternoon (sunny, wind, no wind). Numerous Leithra holes + droppings in the green meadow of Estancia San Ramón and lots at the campsite east of Sagua Perito Moreno. A few condors ad quavocor at the Perito Moreno cliff. nov.2 Gwyn Brody, Susan Martin, Gollopins nov.3 Peter Temple-Smith + Meredith T-S and Gina Peña + 2 field assistants in two vehicles. Tea at Poffeport's, nov.4 VP Carlos Otto with Temple-Smith and Peña. Peña says the dead tops of the lenga trees is caused by a Cerambycid beetle, probably a very colorful one Cheroderus [illegible], type locality Chile near the Argentine border. The female migrates down the trunk. He also says that the cruising colorful wasps are molder looking for females, who are in the ground. A ball of molder forms when they find her. The black beetle [illegible] feed on the bamboo leaf. A Carlos Otto's leather log is a Cucuclid (??), little known of its life history. His 2 assistants collected a quart of the big black desert beetles on the top of Carlos Otto, when we picniced. nov.5 Davirolle