Field notes, v1409
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C. Koford Journal 29 7 March 1962 Delhi, India Poultry + vegetable growing in back parts. neat clean app- earance. Five sheds about 30' x 60' used for cages to hold monkeys. Another shed for hospital; & another for isolation. A man full time to doctor sick; he was giving terramycin in drinking water. Some with diarrhea he was giving chlos- mycetin. Two new white yearlings, with normal eyes, in one cage; a golden pheas in another. Pheas from Assam look different - redder; longer face; Formosa-mosque-like? Holding cages about 8' wide, 12' long, 7' high - larger than at Patterson. Some had large splines wheel (Patterson has metal-rod swings). But cage frame of pipe (Patterson's of wood), with cyclone-type wire. No shelves to hold dirt & feeces. Some had mesh wire platform for monkeys to sit on. Hard- coated lining was much gentler than at Pattersons; cooed animals, rather than jabbed & shouted at. Sorting cage metal too, with vertical small rods side so visibility good. Shipping crate similar to P. kept buildup put over top + block (in writing) to protect from then London sold. In separate shed, about 12 cages with 3 monkeys each in individual compartments, for tests (?). Each monkey had small chain with numbered iron disk around neck. Rai said for such experiments each monkey is put in individual clean bag as caught, then kept separate from others. Date, place, time of each capture recorded. Rai said now most his monkeys come from Punjab, tho bought in many places. Vita has several men who go out & buy from trap- pers, so they do not deal through contractors or P. Loer! (but happens not as salary, the buyers are.) / Rai in India, who