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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