Pearson-1990 2 Two fragments of owl pellets under a big lenga at the edge of the meadow where we park up on Cerro Otto contained 3 Auliscomys. Weather in morning was sunny clear and warm, then clouded over but remained fairly warm, not windy. October 29. Bariloche. Sunny, warm, no wind. Saw Michael Christie in the morning, plus shopping. Then up to the bamboo on Cerro Otto where we counted marked leaves again. October 30. Bariloche. To Fundacion Bariloche to see Gallopins then up Cerro Otto to the bamboo again. In one place in the open lenga forest, big black ants were gathering and piling up fallen blossoms of lenga. Back about 3 pm, then visits from Eleda Bettinelli, Patricia Fierro, and Adrian Monjeau. Then to Gallopin's to try to get my printer working. Weather cooler, a sprinkle at dusk. October 31. Bariloche. Day cool, clear, windy. Errands around town and tried to fix printer. Michael Christie says that there was considerable rain off and on during the winter, some of the storms enough to make the Rio Limay muddy. He thinks that pellets from the La Primavera cave that contain only lizard are probably sparrow hawk or ground tyrant. November 1- Bariloche. Went out to Llao Llao Peninsula to record bamboo data. Stopped to re-photo the Llao Llao Hotel to compare with 1946 photo. Could hardly see the hotel for the coihue trees that had grown up in a grove. In the unmowed grass below the hotel was a flock of about 20 parrots, 8 lapwings, and two geese. Heard parrots later while we were in the bamboo forest. The park has dug two more tank traps to deny vehicular access to the trail back to Lago Escondido. Saw nobody, but there had been some molestation of the Clump at the trail crossroads. Returned via the Circuito Chico. Day sunny, brisk. Dinner with Gallopins. The Systems Group of the Fundacion Bariloche continues to survive via foreign grants and foreign contract research. November 2. Drove to La Primavera. Lorenzo Sympson, the Administrador, was not home but got permission to camp down the road across from the eastern-most terminal moraine along a little stream. Then hiked across the big "pasture" to the rock turret at the end of the moraine above the river and put traps in the cave with the animal amber. Put about 6 steel traps and 15 big Shermans baited with oatmeal in the cave among the fallen rock and bushels of mouse droppings, and also 2 steel traps and 3 Shermans at the base of a big cipres about 100 yards away. No droppings at the cipres, and no barked branches. Numerous small twigs of cipres in the cave (dried), plus some sheep droppings and viscacha. Above the cave with broken rock on the floor is another deeper cave but with smooth bottom and sides. It has lots of viscacha droppings in it but no mouse droppings and no amber.