coihue. The autumn colors are much stronger after that one cold night. Broke camp at 11 and drove to the cascada and bridge just short of the Ventisquero Negro, then drove back to Bariloche at 4. There seemed to be about 4 cars and 3 carryalls of passengers: the sum total of tourists to see Tronador! April 30. Bariloche. Adrian came to talk about his thesis. Then Patricia. They jangled. May 1. Dinner with Gallopins. Built travel cages for Akodons. May 2. Left with Adrian for Chalhuaco at 2 p.m. Roadwork at the "Caracol" prevented going all the way up, but camped in good lenga/amancay half-way up. I put out 13 cage traps, 32 Shermans, and 4 steel traps, all along logs. Adrian put out 36 Shermans, mostly aloing logs, and in clusters. Weather clear, cool,, the autumn leaves not quite optimum yet. May 3. Night clear calm, 2 days past full moon. Heard no owls. We are camped in a clearing about 50 m across with lots of amancay, berberis, and current bushes. Yesterday evening I found fresh cuttings of grass and geranium, so put three street traps along a log nearby. Just after dark one of these traps caught TWO Akodon longipilis at the same time, and when reset soon caught a big Auliscomys. Also an Ako longi in a Sherman. Some ice in water kettle but no frost here, but frost down on the nire flats. My traps caught only 1 more Ako longi and 1 more Auliscomys (in the forest, but a place with lots of Berberis percei and some currant. Adrian caught 4 longipilis, an Oryzomys (in the clearing), and a big Chelemys. Many fewer mice than last year at this season. Back to Bariloche at noon. May 4. Wennt out to INTA to see Bellati, but nobody there. Valverde came to remind me about my speech on Friday. Morning was cold, about -2, and clear, then clouded up. Drove to Llao Llao to the bamboo area; some horses grazing there. Then drove to the place between the hippodromo and the Centro Atomico, where Anita and I trapped last year. Put 36 Shermans through the nire scrub, with scattered retamo, radial, neneo, acaema, and mats of compositae ground cover. Also put 30 Shermans up the hill through scrubby, cut cipres/radial/rosa. Put out the traps 5 to 6 pm; by 7 pm had one longipilis in the dozen traps that I checked near camp. No wind. May 5. Night clear, calm, heavy frost on the nire steppe. Evening and before dawn I heard an owl in the woods giving a eeeeya call every 20 seconds or so. Also heard barn owl once. The traplines produced in total 4 Ako longipilis, 3 Ako olivaceus, and 13 Oryzomys. The oryzomys were in both lines. Back to Bariloche at noon. Processed mice. May 5. Bariloche. Conference with Adrian and Christie. Dinner with Patricia and Jorge Vallerini. He is happy with the high wool prices. May 6. Bariloche. Gave lecture at the University: "The black hole of the Cuyin Manzano: a study in biogeography." Rapoport, Chehebar, Grigera, etc. were