Mustang, Meika A. 1993 journal 36 P.E. Ilhabela - SP we made in 3.5 hr. The ferry crosses the canal (±2 km wide, at most 37-38 m deep) in 15-20 min and leave, all the time, all day long and through the night. On the island we stayed at Petit Village Hotel, as a courtesy from Nivaldo Simões (ex-manager of the hotel) currently a reporter for the local newspapers: Imprensa Livre, and who wrote a full-page article about our work. The island is 80% a State Park, which the director is Fábio Olmo, who got his Masters a couple of years ago at UNICAMP. Fábio is an eclectic ecologist, specialist on birds, but also interested in mammals, etc... He invited us to the island and accompanied us everyday, all day long in our daily activities. According to Fábio there is a big diversity of forest "type" on the island. not only because of the varied topography from 0 - 1300 m (Pico de São Sebastião) but also because (probably) of rain shadow effects. We decided to sample two elevations: 1- 200m, at the entrance of the Park on Entrada de Castelhano, near trilha (=trail) da Água Branca; and 2- at 650m;