released line this morning, morning clear, calm, heavy frost, left at 8:30 for Barbados. Saw 1 hare yesterday afternoon and one wild goose lighting 2 nights. Very few squawked on the road. Heard barn owl at 10 pm last night, and California Quail both mornings. Sr. Marful says the snowy winter of 1983/84 killed almost all quail. Ceranaco came down into his front yard during the snows. He says the little gray fox has only just arrived in this region and that it probably attacks quail. No martina tianarone, he says, but that they used to be there. There is the remains of a brick-making operation in the woods near our trofes. Marful says they used chacay wood for fuel and that it used to be much more abundant. Cipre also used to go all the way to Comallo but it died off and into fence posts etc. Marful is 56 and has been here something like 17 years. mar 14 Barbados, Syms brought right vision goggles. nov 15 Barbados. Nimbus Christi writer. He has cut out a specimen of the mar tures to Buenos Aires. nov 16 Clear day, cal. Drove to Rio Catarro Otero. Bolton's brown elongate was and is in full bloom. Nobody at our cacafrito in spite of it being the first day of the fishing season. We measured the F1 clump of bamboo; tested gearings cable and 2 or 3 main shoots only a couple of