Field notes, v1408
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C. Koford 16 Journal 27 July 1965. To Inuyama, Aichi, Japan Inuyama + J. Markey Center. Conferrd w/ Yoshida, Kawai, re Bud- get. Revised the budget + categories. 28 July 1965. Budget discussion at JMC. Paid M. Kawai 600,000 yen, + worked out budget limits for August. 29 July 1965. Returned to Tokyo (Fri.). Confered with D. Avery at NSF. 30-31 July 1965. Tokyo. Paper work + correspondence. The hot post- rainy season now; many use swimming + weekend travelers. 1 August 1965. Departed 11 a.m., JAL, for Hong Kong. Visibility poor below much of way, but many from studio or water. No view of Taiwan. Went up the p 2 August 1965. Peak Tram + walked the circle around the Peak. Saw + heard many birds - soaring bowler lite ?, cuckoo (?), in sparse- like vegetation. Large snake (3") [illegible] shaped. Saw no lizards. Varies hills in sight now, or trees + green; any former tree probably long, gone. 2 August 1965. Visited Hong Kong Univ., which had fairly modern library building (on #7 Aberdeen, lines level). Holiday. Dr. (Mrs.) Marshall was [illegible] A (dridge) on loan; she said to be interested in mammals. Dept: Nood, Thorncroft, were an admin secretary. I talked to only 2 Chinese pocket girls. Visited Repulse (cove) Bay, + Aberdeen - a small pocket of seething Chinese boat + market life. Sea little but still blue, not muddy! The Chinese girls in good dept. thought little animal trade than H.K., the occasional civet or paragon in food market. One said a hill in New Territories formerly had monkeys in pine + was called "monkey hill" (no specimens). 3 August 1965. Departed 15:25 for Delhi via Bangkok. Much ocean like blue sea. Much seemingly uninhabited hilly jungle, + wide red-brown muddy Mekong R. India plain brown, the pools frequent.