"yareta", and the big thornbush with the sperical galls (Schinus). Tadpoles in a stream at about 30 km W Perito Moreno. On the drive (50km) from Los Antiguos to Perito Moreno we saw 5 freshly squashed hares. On the unpaved stretch from Perito Moreno to 5 de Mayo, 130 km, 3 hrs, two cars passed. Saw no rheas or guanacos. The farthest south Rosa Mosqueta was along the road near Facundo, Chubut Prov. 1 big hairy armadillo squashed near Gobernador Costa. Camped again at the same site 30 km W Jose de San Martin and plastered the Berberis mounds where the Notiomys was caught, and nearby. Anita put 11 small Shermans and 10 big Sher mans, and I put 12 cage traps. Night cool, not windy. December 8- 30 km W Jose de San Martin. Light frost on car and sleeping bags. Anita's traps held 1 toad. My traps had 1 Eligmo, 1 Ak xantho, and 1 smallish tuco that looked like haigi; not saved. Charlie MacKinnon in Esquel said that this locality is high, probably 800- 900 m above sea level. Left at 7 a.m. for Esquel. 2 squashed skunks en route. Flamingos above Tecka. Stopped at Charlie and Nora Mackinnon's in Esquel. He keeps his own weather records and says it has been the wettest 12 months in many years, and that good rains in October during the growing season have made the hillsides lush. But the sheep business is awful. "Those poor chaps are suffering". He says that the Senguerr, Estancia La Laurita,and Gobernador Costa are bitter cold in winter. He says Benetton now owns El Maiten, Leleque, Pilcaniyeu, and Alicura and, I think, Tecka, and that they are going to concentrate on sheep, not cattle. Then back to Bariloche. The first Colletia and Palo Pichi were noted at Leleque/Maiten, the first radal near the Cholila turnoff; Cipres there also. The first Notro (Embothrium) at Epuyen. The day was mostly overcast or broken clouds. December 9.- Bariloche. Mild, not windy, Dinner with Dr. Eileen Lacey and her field assistant, John Wieczcrek. Michael Christie showed them the Ctenomys sociabilis colonies up high on Estancia Fortin Chacabuco, and they have located several others between the highway and the Rio Limay just south of Rincon Grande. Sounds like near our roadside population 10 km N Nahuel Huapi. They have heard them vocalize, seen them, but have not yet tried live-trapping them. They are using a trap design successful with naked mole rats.