Pearson-1992 10 in elevated places around the edge of this level field. Checked traps at 7 p.m., still mostly rainy. 1 Ako olivaceus in the forest, 6 more olivaceus and 2 longipilis from the Museum Specials along the road. Our total day's catch 24 mice, all except 1 of them from roadside in about 48 traps. Are we seeing a Kravetz effect where the population really resides in the margins of the agricultural fields, and some species then move into the fields at appropriate times? The forests and bamboo patches are certainly pretty empty right now. Heard parrots once today. Lots of pigeons. November 14- Aguas Calientes, Chile. Morning scattered clouds, a few showers. Trap lines at 9 a.m. as follows: 10 shermans in clump of old bamboo-0; 9 cage traps along the ditch at 4.7km NE-1 live Geoxus, 1 Ako longi; 4 Museum Specials along ditch at 4.7 km-1 Ako longi, 1 Geoxus, 1 olivaceus; 14 Museum Specials along ditch at 4.7 km NE- 1 Ako longi, 1 BIG Auliscomys, 3 Oryzomys (one of them big and 2 of them juveniles, but the juv female was pregnant); Anita's Museum Specials and Shermans in the forest-0; her 20 Museum Specials along the road 2 Ako longi, 1 Ako oliv., 1 big Auliscomys. Milton and Freddy in the forest caught nothing? or maybe 2 Ako olivaceus. A flock of about 10 parrots went over. Skinned in morning, then left after lunch to Valdivia. "Dead" quila was common to Entre Lagos (30 km W of the Termas of Puyehue, then no more "dead". Collected Chusquea uliginosa at 30 km east of Osorno where Lyn Clark had reported it and couleu together. Stayed at Milton's house; met his parents Jorge and Olga, sightseeing. Watched a video of the eruption of Volcan Lonquimay in 1988, and of the big earthquake in Valdivia in 1960. An impressive engineering action breached a couple of "dams" that the earthquake had formed and that were backing up a river and 3 or 4 lakes all the way to Lago Lacar in Argentina. The impounded water was threatening the city of Valdivia. November 15- Sightseeing around Valdivia, then a "pulmai" or "curanto" of assorted shellfish etc at his parent's home. Then drove to his parent's cabin on the river at Niebla. The quila bamboo there is beginning to bloom but not "dead" yet. Then tea at the farm/tree nursery of Mariana Matthews (Schele) and Ricardo Mendoza. She is a professional photographer. He is an artist and is raising native trees for reforestation. They had had dinner only a couple of days ago with Douglas Tompkins, a wealthy North American business man (Esprit clothes) who has bought tens or hundred of thousands of hectares of forest including Alerces trees below Puerto Montt