Pearson - 1988 38 about 1/2 inch, but most smaller than a pencil. A few had been partly "barked". We found only the stubs, not the terminal parts which presumably drop to the ground. Took some fresh twigs home to test on captive Auliscomys and captive Ako longi. One 1-inch terminal shoot that we cut into had a hollow and a "nest" of striped ants with larvae. The hollow place probably had been made by beetle? larvae. Indeed, tthe nires, big and small, are riddled with galleries up to a half-inch in diameter. October 28- Bariloche. Cold, rainy, snowy all day. Conference with Monjeau, then dinner with Patricia Fierro and Jorge Vallerini. Neither Ako longi nor Aulicomys touched the nire branches in their cages. October 29- Bariloche. Cold and clear; touches of snow on the ground in the back yard, and roofs covered. Michael Christie came by, said that this past winter had been unusually cold with more than the usual number of pipes freezing, but not as severe as 1984 the year of the big snows. He also reported that Conrad Bailey says that the weather records at Estancia San Ramon indicate considerably drier than average years for the past three years. At 6pm put out traps across the road (south) of the aeroclub flying field 11 km NE of town. Habitat is a rich mixture of bushes, especially rosa mosqueta and Colletia, but also Berberis Baccharis, neneo, and many others. Many dried rosa mosqueta fruits still hanging on the branches, and numerous rosa clumps with seed caches under them. Weather cold, overcast. Anita put out 19 Museum Specials and 23 Shermans. I put out 31 of each, alternating. October 30- Bariloche. Morning cool, overcast. Anita's snap traps had 2 Oryzomys, 1 Akodon xanthorhinus, and 1 Auliscomys. Her live traps had 4 Oryzomys and 1 Auliscosmys. My snap traps had 7 Oryzomys, 2 Ako longi, and 1 Auliscomys. My live traps had 2 Auliscomys, 5 Oryzomys, 2 Ako longi, and 1 Reithrodon. Total 114 traps, 29 mice. October 31- Morning clear, cool. Javier Bellati visited, with fox data from Pilcaniyeu and from Estancia Condor. Trappers at both places say that they catch 20-30 foxes per year, only grey foxes at Pilca and only red foxes at Condor. He and Julietta have many years of data of percent of bait stations visited by foxes, hares, mice, birds, lizards, insects, skunks, and hurones. Hurones only at El Condor, not at Pilca. The frequency off fox visits follows the frequency of hare visits by one year. Commercial hare hunters worked the road between here and Los Menucos last winter. At El Condor they were taking 100 to 200 per night (jacklighting with .22 rifle). Arturo Kolliker is no longer at Estancia San Ramon; his replacement is Billie Doll, married to the girl from Fundacion Bariloche who was studying lenga. Julieta is at Colorado State learning telemetry. At 6:30 put traps on the lower slope of Cerro Otto, just a little past the last house (vivero). Habitat brushy: cipres, maiten, notro, Mutisia,