looked for amber we found viscacha droppings. Bither they produce an enormous number or else the droppings last forever. Back to Bariloche at lunchtime. Two freshly dead hares along the road (Sunday morning). Adrian Monjeau dropped in. He encountered an Indian woman (on the train) who recognized his drawing of the head of a Lestodelphys, said it had a fat tail, and that the Indian name for it was DROL. November 12- Bariloche. Cool, mostly clear. Worked on bamboo data. November 13- Bariloche. Cloudy, windy. Went out to Cerro Leones with Werner and Joanna Flueck to look for amber and owl pellets. As we were walking up the slope to the cliff, a caretaker accosted us and said that there was no trespassing and that we would have to get permission of the owner to go up to the cliff. The owner Hector ?Leonetti runs the Cerro Leon chocolate shop. We drove back to town and went to see him. He was adamant about people disturbing eagles that were nesting on "our" cliff, and people shooting viscachas. Then he went into the back room and came out with a 6- foot teenage boy and asked did I remember this boy. I did not, but the boy had tagged along with us setting traps below the cliff years ago! Visited Adam Hayduk in the morning. He has been working on Indian archeology on Isla Victoria and has dates about 50 years BC. Says that Tonni in La Plata identified the lower end of a leg bone of a camellid as Llama, not guanaco. Adam talks about evidence that there were domesticated llamas in southern Chile in early Spanish times. November 14- Bariloche. Cloudy, very windy, some rain. Worked on manuscripts. November 15- Scattered clouds, not cold. Visit from Michael Christie. He thinks that Ctenomys sociabilis is the most endangered rodent in Patagonia...becuse of its small area of distribution, the danger of flooding of part of its area by a new dam, and the planting of pine trees on the rest of its area. He thinks Dolichotis is pretty much restricted to Monte habitat and does not have anywhere near the extensive distribution figured by Mares in the Pymatuning volume. Christie has no evidence that hares are competing with it. Was it Taber that studied them? He also thinks that Lagidium wolffsohni is probably very endangered. He has seen skins in the British Museum and has no doubt that they are a huge, hairy, good species. He discusses Lestodelphys and Notiomys in his 1984 paper in Revista del Mus. Arg. Cien. Nat. Bernardino Rivadavia, Zool., 13:535-544. He now thinks that pine plantations and reservoirs are the greatest threat to wildlife. November 16- Sunny and warm. Drove to Llao Llao for photo and bamboo. The Scotch Broom in full flower but not quite maximum. Heard parrots in the forest. Dinner with Patricia Fierro and Jorge Vallerini. He thinks the giant Ephedra may be just retamo (Diostea). He participated in a study with Boelke on effect of fertilization of mallines in this area. The effect was impressive...but uneconomic.