goggles. Sky clear, not windy, quarter moon. Didn't get dark until about 10. The girls wandered with the goggles over their study area, which has about 50 xanthurhinus and Eligmodontia on it right now, and saw nothing, not even hares or Reithrodon. I wandered with jacklight and saw nothing. A hare was squashed on the road while we were there. November 30.- Bariloche. Morning 50, clear. To Ecotono in the morning, then to Cueva Traful in the afternoon. No hares DOR but saw one. Lots of water in the Rio Limay. Cueva Traful unchanged, no fresh owl pellets. The cipreses in the Traful Valley are impressively abundant and seem to be reproducing. There are still tuco-tucos (sociabilis) along the road 10 km N of Nahuel Huapi. We listened twice but heard none. I don't remember ever hearing this population sing. Abel Basti and the Fluecks came by in the evening. Werner says that the red deer use lenga forest for shelter but is not sure that they find much to eat there. December 1- Bariloche. Temp 49, clear. Adrian and company captured a dozen mice on their grid on the airport road, plus 3 Akodon xanthurhinus and 1 Eligmodontia with about 40 Museum Specials and possibly some Shermans in an area farther out toward the airport. We dissected these, pus some Oryzomys and Abrothrix longipilis collected by the girl doing an impact study of the Llao Llao golf course. One of the two Abrothrix was an aborting female. All pretty stinky. Dinner at Christie's restaurant (Villegas) with Javier Perez Calvo, who is in forensic medicine with the Neuquen police. He hopes to go to the states soon to learn PCR techniques with the FBI. Eileen Lacey, a student of Paul Sherman's, is coming soon to study tuco-tuco (sociabilis) behavior. Dec 2.- Bariloche temp. 58. Marcela Manacorda, who lives in Bariloche, came by. She is a friend of Laura Madoery, formerly of Mendoza Roig's group. Marcela seems to have been seeking information about Ctenomys sociabilis. Also came by: Adrian Monjeau and Mariana Losada seeking CONICET sponsorship for Mariana; and Werner and Joanna Flueck. December 3.- Bariloche. Breakfast with Javier Perez Calvo, then left about 10 a.m. for the south. Between El Bolson and Epuyen there are immense areas of rosa mosqueta; lots of blackberry as well. I was impressed again with the lush grazing in the valley that runs north from Tecka (Estancia Tecka). They even have huge fields of sweet clover and oats. Camped 4.1 km west of Route 40 on the road (route 19) to Rio Pico and Lago Vintter. We stopped on a side road, a dirt track that had been bulldozed to 50m right-of-way but then never