Field notes, v1409
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C. Kofurd 17 Journal 20 February 1962. RR Mailani, N. of Lucknow, India by tracker 1 mi. NW of town, saw 3 or 4+? in green field (what?) at edge forest. A woman chased them away, & they walked quietly into forest. I saw 2 domestic crows. Also a black pheas-like bird with crest and non- not-like tail [illegible] stop tree. Little sign normal life or forest flow, but saw smell owl + many single bats about 6:30 p.m. Near RR station were 3 large Pteropus(?) dead entangled in telephone wires near a tree. /Night at Mailani. 21 February 1962. It was reported that 3 or 2 ad. ? & caught at one site yesterday, and 4 at another, near Mailani. /0650, with Gupta, George, Bob, others, departed for Kuniya, ½ hr. N on RR track. Trappers and head catch- ers had gone ahead. In grove of large mango-like trees, with no under- growth, behind station were at least 17 monkeys; 2 ad. ? (one very old), 1 subad. ?, 3 yrl., 3 apparently 2 yrs., 0+?. Most ?? appeared to be very old. There could be trapped only if permission of town council obtained. ? showed little fear of dog 3' away. Many people & cats went thru the grove. We walked then to NE corner ploughed fields, wheat fields, + past some potato to a 5 acre patch of 70' hardwood forest. Trees mango-like. Understory 10-15', but much opened by cattle pather. Trappers absent! I saw 1 ? and 6+? with 2-3 yrl. in tree; quiet & spread 100 yards. /We then waited while one was sent to find trappers. Eventually they returned & we walked ½ mile NE to a forest patch of about 3 acres, arriving about 10 a.m. The net trappers had 2 nets out; they had taken one bunch about 8:30 and again 0930, all small. Trappers impatient; about every half hour on to trap site to check a put bait. Photo (B4W #4,5) of this mode. No more catch by 1200. Then, for me, they trapped 1 ? (20 teeth). When wire pulled pull < [illegible] net Weak point in top cor- ner toward wire; the other sticks steady. /We then walked S. to another