Pearson - 1988 39 radal, rosa mosqueta, a small amount of Colletia, spiny-edged bromeliad, not much grass. I put 22 Museum Specials and 22 Shermans; Anita put 19 MS and 21 Shermans. This was on the way back from another visit to our bamboo clumps farther up on Cerro Otto, where we counted marked leaves and marked some new ones. Still patches of snow near the bamboo clumps. Overcast. November 1- Bariloche. Morning clear, not cold. Ran traps at 7am. The 84 traps had 1 Oryzomys (discarded) and 2 Ako longi (Anita's line) and 1 Auliscomys and 2 Ako longi on my line. The altitude was 1000 m. November 2- Left at 10:30 for Rio Castano Overo. Mostly overcast. Picked up Genarmeria Silva to Pampa Linda. He says gendarms man the station all winter; sometimes they have to go to Hotel Mascardi by horseback. Some tour groups come at any time of winter if the road is open. The Berberis darwinii was in full bloom along Mascardi. Worked on bamboo clump F2. Two very small clumps along the road were blooming, about 2 m apart so they might be the same clump; they were heavily grazed, and the yearling culms were sending out blooms. Then set traps. My line was almost all along logs: 28 MS and 36 Shermans, mostly set in pairs. Anita put 27 MS and 27 Shermans near camp. Camp is along the road a half-km short of the big camping place., We stopped there because the road was near-impassable. Two men and 5 horses went by returning from packing some climbers in. The mallin is wintery, but the nires beginning to leaf out. November 3- Rio Castano Overo. Night was clear, mild. Anit's traps had 1 Ako longipilis and 2 Akodon olivaceus. These two look different from eachother; check skins and skulls. This locality is close to the type locality of mansoensis. My trap line had 5 Akodon longipilis (3 in snap traps and 2 in Shermans). Worked on the bamboo clump in the forest and moved about 10 of my traps. One of the big orange bumble bees visited the orange blossoms on Berberis linearifolia near camp. It knocked off petals as it climbed around the blossoms. Sunny and warm all day. November 4- Rio Castano Overo. Night clear, cool, no frost. Anita's traps nothing. My traps with 1 Chucaco, 1 Liolaemus, 1 Oryzomys (dead), and 5 Ako longipilis (2 dead. Processed mice, took photos of bamboo and scenery, counted leaves on bamboo. Stopped at the new confiteria at Pampa Linda on the way out. It is run by Roberto Chihuay who remembers a bamboo bloom about 1946 at Llao Llao; lots of tiny mice. He recommends talking with his uncle Juan Chihuay who lives in the 700 block of Blordi. Day sunny and clear all day. Stopped on the way home to photo Berberis and saw a giant orange bumble bee feeding on Berberis darwinii. Berberis linearifolia was blooming in the same clump. Darwinii is not available at Castano Overo where I saw feeding yesterday on linearifolia. Home 7:30 pm. Marcello Bettinelli and wife called at 9:30 to return film