Field notes, v1409
Page 37
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
C. Koford 15 Journal 19 February 1962. NW. of Lucknow, India (Mailani) scattered over so invisible. Bait grain - only about a round put. metal stake net net fastened to sticks rope at top edge; lighter line at bottom sticks-> wire pull edge, which is in bottom of trench. rope Men set about 100 yds. away in open; talked & joked; easily heard beyond 100 yds. / saw first occasional termite mounds to 6' tall. / 1340, ox cart drove past first trap. Both take up about 2 p.m., or repeated about 50 minutes at another site. We walked to new site on broad dirt road thru forest 1 1/2 mi. W. of town. Net set dry side of road. Never make att- nested to site by our scattering grain. 1 ad. #7, 4 ad. #2, 2 syl. But none actually stayed at net site. Set 3:15 p.m. of led group works. One & had yds. on back. No luck. Walked back to Mailani. Slept in a sort of hostel, where room & rope bed provided; clean enough, but mosquitoes, & dogs barking. Supposed to get early start for trapping tomorrow. 20 February 1962 We drove back to Kukra, arriving 0720 at camp of monkey trappers. Brave huts; slept in grass piled on ground; very primi- tive. They had about 6 small chim in 2 bamboo cages. About 15 men & boys with ropes, nets, hatchets, & picks, soon set out afoot for forest patch 1 mile N. of Mailani. We saw two ad. & 9 near road, but then not pursued as presumably going to catch a group. Arrived 0845. Much yelling back & forth among the men. A few climbed trees & hacked off branches, or cut down low tree. Saw a 5 lb. monkey seen in trees. He moved from tree to tree. Finally they cut many branches from one tree, but left one large branch pro- truding toward another. This branch was cut around, halfway though, and a long 3/8" rope run over limb. A net about 3' high then put around base base of tree, about 50' x 100' area O. Then much shrill shouting, throwing sticks, wielding men in treestoms. The little monkey fled his tree, going onto tip of the cut branch,