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C. Koford
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Journal
17 February 1962
Kanpur, India
group included: 1 Ø, 5 ♀, 2 yrl., 2 juv. / 7 in one area had
withered hind leg, / Mr. Gupta, in charge of trapping,
said that Muslims trap with buried net. Hindus use boxtrap
with string release, snares set on ground; a group of men that
force animal up tree and then catch it (about 15 men; some-
times they use net for a wall on one side). / We drove to
another known site: about 35 animals. 2 ad., ØØ, one be-
[illegible]
ing old & apparently blind in one eye. Small yrl., but more
between 4 and 10 lbs. Some 4 ♀ pregnant. No new infants.
I took photos. / Gupta said large rhesus groups in Nepal
but not allowed to catch. Apparently he brings monkeys from
at Berkeley? More details daily day
many local boys and groups. / Duskish of the grey-backed sifangs
in evening several dwarf long-tailed green parakeets flew high over.
18 February 1962
Lucknow, India
—drove to Lucknow in evening and
We had stayed in Carlton Hotel; old style and plain but satisfactory,
across road was Botanical Garden. I walked there and saw a booper
flight & appearance flicker-like. Also two chipmunks (stripes on
back) in trees, 4 other birds. Many grey-backed ravens. / About 100 m.
visited small monkey farm of M. Sikander Begum (photo her &
man monkey contractor). This in old adobe section of Lucknow. Clean walls,
yard about 75'x100'. Divided with open sides, 12+ bowl cages about 3'x3'x
1½', with 10± 4-6 lb. monkeys in each. Fed grain. Seemed healthy. Women
in one of Patna's largest dealers. About 150 men bring monkeys to her. We
saw a careful coming by bicycle rickshaw. In cages weights. Males
held a day or so for shipment to Delhi; where weighed and segregated.
In street nearly saw 3 on ropes held by women; pets apparently, / In
afternoon we drove NW (?) about 2 hrs. to Kheri Town. On way saw
crowded train & large red-headed crows near road, 1 peacock, one