Field notes, v1408
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Journal 4 August 1965 Delhi, India. Crowes, mynahs, parrots, lute in city, + many other birds too - why so many? Gray pecked crow bird. Hot + humid; monsoon season (said to start about July 15). Visited Patterson Ltd., on airport, DD Dhawan still manager, + T.E. Patterson, wife, + children living in house is compound. He very talkative's hard to follow. The plant + exp't. about as before, the P. said going to fix place to "decline" animals 1-2 wkrs. before farm shipment. He said animals now usually held at farm by Mr. Pat Washington mi (Horken) & J. Also that he shipped monkeys from Kuala Lumpur + Bangkok. Visited Vite Pvt. Ltd. (32 Ahipur, opp. Old Secretariat) and talked with elder Mr. Rai + office staff/ Departed 10 p.m. for Dehra Dun. 5 August 1965. Arrived D. Dun about 8 a.m. Fleet green region w/ forested hills bordering. Headquarters of Forest Research Inst. and the academy of Indian army. By taxi 22 miles up switchbacks to Mussoorie, a hill station on ridge at about 6000' elev., Cedrus deodara + pine trees there. Met by Donald Lindberg, U.C. anthrop. grad. student, who is studying rhesus monkeys. Both langurs + rhesus in this area. Various missionary schools. Cool summer resort zone. We drove down to Dehra Dun in afternoon, then to Lindbergs headquarters at Asanvi (?) rest house, at edge of forest ( Shorea robusta dominant ). I took walk in woods + saw a group of Presbytis entellus, including one & w. black-furred infant. Also I heard the barking deer - dog-like single-horned antelope seal. sounds; Lindberg said these fairly common. Some mosquitoes evening, but no rain. 6 August 1965. With Lindberg searched for his rhesus study group of 30+, which he had lost. We saw two