finished off the apple and pear crop. The paper says that this is the latest frost that anyone can remember. November 6- Bariloche. Morning 55, clear, mild. Dissected owl pellets. Dinner with Michael Christie and Patricia at their rented house on the lake in the pine trees at the gas station where the Pilcaniyeu road takes off. Tuco- tuco in the front yard cut the roots of domestic rose bushes, a small Araucaria tree, and grazing around feeding holes in the lawn. Soil very sandy. Michael says lots of house mice. He followed the tracks of one in the snow from one bush to another, then found the beast dead under a bush. Lorenzo Sympson has found another cave with deposits of amberat at Estancia La Primavera, in a dense cipres stand. He says that he sees as many as a dozen elk grazing on the lawn at the Primavera casco. He is supposed to clear with Parques to get permission to shoot any. He is convinced that hunters shooting the best bucks has ruined the genetic stock, but at the same time admits that the elk have prevented reproduction of the Nothofagus and cipres on La Primavera. He says that Estancia Fortin Chacabuco doesn't have any bucks left worth shooting. November 7- Bariloche. Morning 55, overcast. The first mink tails have appeared in the fir tree in the back yard. November 8- Bariloche. Morning 50. Day mostly cloudy. November 9- Morning 50. Left at 9 for Chile. Scattered clouds. Lots of Berberis darwini in bloom. Altimeter at Lake level at 9:30 ws 2600 ft., at our lizard/mouse stop approaching the pass 3780 ft, at the pass 4200 ft. On the edge of snowbanks at 3760 ft. we found runways, earthcores, and a few droppings that looked like Reithrodon and Auliscomys. Many lizards basking. The first quila (Chusquea valdivianus) was 5.8 km east of the Chilean aduana. The first dead quila was 8.8 km east of the aduana. From then on to the Hotel Puyehue most of the quila was "dead". A few live clumps, and all the couleou live. Drove to Parkguard Nicolas Pacheco's house at Aguas Calientes. He has a clump of Ch. uliginosa in his backyard and says it is native here. We then drove out with Niko, Milton Gallardo, and his student Freddy to look for a place to set traps. The pure dead quila is impossible to work in. You can walk across the top of it, sort of, but you are 2 or 3 feet above the ground. We set traps along the edge of linear break cut recently through the quila under a power line. Freddy and I set 29 Shermans along the edge of the cut quila. A few blackberry bushes near the beginning of our line, but otherwise pure dead quila and a few logs. Milton, Anita and Nico set 58 Shermans in similar habitat. No signs of mice while setting traps, none squashed on the road, and Nico says some botanists or mycologists were here only a short