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LIDICKER
1969
and caught Smith hard net. On the way back,
Griffith showed me a trail which leads to a cave
into Dobsonia minor in it. After lunch Wilson
showed us how to place samples on a stuck gel.
Prepared bat specimens from freezer. Also
injected calchicine into a Phalanger maculatus
(13g, ad. &) and got more manner definition,
using phalangy in which cooler for the night.
22 July
Skinned phalanger (#3026) + accumulated bats.
Petcher brought in a badly tangled mist
net hung by J. Kittawa - coconut plantation -
orchard which contained 16 Rousettus complex calls
(9 were dead, 7 were alive + 1 if latter was released).
Starting at ~1500, there was reception given by Delta
Helix for various local dignitaries including "Lewa",
Prem. of the local district Council. Harold Cogger from
Durst. Museum arrived. At 1730 6 of us went
to Sample for a last shoot. We arrived about 1815,
strolled in from the Reserve Camp. At one point 3 of
us saw bats pouring out of a gap in the forest. We
heard a really mist net set with the help of a hard net
very quickly caught 2 Aselliscus + 2 Hipposideros
galenicus. Then we went on to the ridge; Griffith
was recording H. lidickeri & K. Calvin & I was trying
to shoot bats in a clearing beyond. We concentrated on one,
but could not find it even after a long search. If we