36 Journal October 19- Arrived Bariloche about 5 p.m. by plane from Buenos Aires. Seemed to be a big dust storm over Chocon area. Steppe looked wintery; lots of snow on hills around Bariloche, some of it last night, but none on the steppe. October 20- Bariloche. Cool and mostly cloudy. Shopped and got car started. Pear trees in bloom in town, some tulips, some Scotch broom. Saw Marcelo Betinelli, Patricia Fierro, Chehebar (who has released one otter with radio transmitter at Isla Victoria but has not been able to locate it), and Adrian Monjeau (who went collecting with Dickerman from Wisconsin between here and the coast). They stopped at a cliff along the road near the town of Clemente Onelli acnd found a freshly dead Lestodelphys at the base of the cliff. Also lots of owl pellets. They set traps south of Los Menucos at a place that sounds like our Lesto locality and caught lots of Eligmodontia, an Akodon iniscatus, and ... This was about a month ago when populations should have been low. According to Patricia, the autumn was warm and spring-like, but considerable snow late in the winter. Lots of snow on the mountains now. October 21- Bariloche. Cold and rainy all day; did chores around town and around the apartment. Michael Christie visited. October 22- Bariloche. Cold, mostly cloudy. After lunch drove to Llao Llao Peninsula and stopped in the Coihue and cana forest on the shore of Lake Perito Moreno (west branch), 24 km WNW Bariloche. No blooms yet on the Scotch Broom at Llao Llao, and the Berberis darwinii is not blooming yet although a few buds about to burst. Quintral blooming and Anita saw two hummingbirds. At 3 pm I set out 35 Shermans and 25 Museum Specials in dense bamboo/Coihue/icpres forest. Big overmature trees. Anita set 32 Shermans and 11 Museum Specials, plus 2 steel traps. Checked my traps at 6 p.m. and had one Chucao in a snap trap. Checked Anita's at 7:30 and had nothing. Oct 23- Lago Perito Moreno, 24 km WNW Bariloche. Night overcast, some sprinkles, then drizzle in morning. My line caught 1 Oryzomys and 8 Ako longipilis; 3 of the Ako longi in snap traps and two of them by the tail. Anita caught 5 Ako longi, two of them in the 2 steel traps, which had been set at places where there was sign of digging. One was at the mouth of a rat-like burrow. Back to Bariloche at 10. October 24- Bariloche. Visited the office of Fontinalis S.A. and saw Christie, Tarak, Patricia, and Cacho Carranza. In p.m. went up Cerro Otto and measured bamboo. Some patches of snow still on the southeast slope where our bamboo is. Leaf markings still visible on the bamboo.. October 25- Shipped three unnumbered male Ako longi and one female (# ) to Martha Piantanida via Austral. Conference with Monjeau. Then to La Veranada. Temp cool, mostly cloudy. The road still being worked on, not