Field notes, v1442
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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