Pearson-1989 20 bloom. Day sunny, mild, no wind. November 2- Bariloche. Clear, very windy. Hilda Rumboll came too call. She was about to be filmed by BBC Television in connection with her sighting of the Nahuel Huapi Monster many years ago. Her accounts are becoming temporally disconnected, Maurice is leading tour groups. In the evening a birding group arrived including Bruce and Jeannette Howard, the Whipples, George Peyton, etc. They had been to Peninsula Valdez and Ushuaia. Dinner with them and Michael Christie at Casita Suiza. November 3- Bariloche. Long visit from Hilda Rumboll. Talk to the Payton/Howard birding tour group including Narca Moore-Craig and Walt Anderson. Good weather. November 4- Bariloche, Nice day. Puttered with bamboo in apartment. November 5- Anita left with the Peyton bird tour. I left for the east about 11. Passed only 2 cars on the road to Pilcaniyeu (11-1 Sunday morning), and then only one car between Pilca and Comallo. Altitudes read along the way: Apartment 2730 ft, 1st Summit 3500, 2nd Summit 3400, Pilcaniyeu 3320, top of the bajada down into Comallo 3520ft, Comallo 2700 [and two days later: 9km W Clemente Onelli 3044 ft; bottom of the Comallo Bajada at the old school 2850]. Stillingia in full bloom at the bajada. The rocks where Anita and I saw viscachas a couple of years ago on the way to the steppe are 11 km by road east (really south) of Comallo. Stopped there briefly, lots of viscacha droppings. Then stopped for fox skulls at 13 km by road south of Comallo. Picked up 9 This is the place where we picked up some other ones 2 years ago on the way to Los Menucos, but then lost thjem to a dog when they were drying. They came from a heap of skinned carcases on the side of the road and seemed to include grey and red foxes. These specimens are from the same batch, only 2 years later. Then stopped at another cliff along the north side of the road 30km by road east of Comallo (or 10km by road west of Clemente Onelli). This is probably the place where Adrian found the dead Lestodelphys with Kirsch and Dickerman. I searched along the bottom of the cliff and found a couple of quarts of large owl pellets and numerous stray bones of tuco, Reithrodon, and Lestodelphys. Must have found 10 or more loose jaws and at least 2 pellets with Lesto in them. Then drove on to Clemente Onelli (41 km by road east of Comallo. Then turned around and went back to the Lestodelphys c cliffs, which is at km marker 475, 10 km B of Clemente Onelli by road. Camped in the scrub across the road from the cliff. Put out some assorted traps through the scrub/steppe, and then assorted traps along the bottom of the cliff hoping for Lesto. Day was warm, mostly overcast, windy at times but calm after sunset. November 6- 9km W Clemente Onelli. A gauch0 who rode through camp this morning when asked what this place is called said Clemente Onelli, and the estancia owned by a Sr. Cuesta. Last night had out about 9 cage traps, 35 Shermans, 25 Museum Specials, and 12 steel traps (total 72). some in great mousy looking places along the base of the owl cliff, some in bushy steppe. Line was