C. Koford 57 Journal April 29, 1951 15300' Livine, 29 miles N ETarata, Dpto Tacna, Per. in morning. Level cold wind about 5 p.m., dying shortly after sunset. April 30, 1951. Colder than usual last night. Foreskaped with steel trap near camp; rope holding drop was brittle when frozen. Mice frozen hard in traps. Catch 2 Phyllotis darwinii, 1 Abdera andinus, +1 Phylletis darwinii. Put up three mice. No catch in 15 traps baited with mouse meat. Saw 9 vicunas on slope above camp in morning. Clear day with cold winds. Took up first 20 snap traps + set 25 additional at end line (so 90 out + Manj's 30). Twice during day flushed snipe-like bird from low grass near camp. Took picture (kodachrome) of camp area. Evening cold + clear. Oteronys too filled some of burrows in which we had Mocabe a steel traps but caught none. Most of my 25 new snap traps set on dump slope among tall (2') soft grass. Many pale-straw colored Nestor- sized droppings there, perhaps all old (Alrocon?). May 1, 1951. My traps held 1 Phyllotis darwinii. Many caught on Oteronys. 8° below 0° last night. We put up our snidele & in afternoon headed toward Alave • The control station was 12 miles from camp. A man I saw said the avestuces were at Chillicules, a campsite near next bridge to N. Young appeared in January, he said. Two other men agree that the askaskas here were there but "many seasons". The red mountain near which we camped was Cerro Antojave. Men said coldest months June + July. We drove on to Chillicules, 5 miles from Cataleira. This was the 17400' pampas just above rock canyon with many vicuñas. Cold wind; saw but no snow-