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LIDICKEN
1969
rice. Bird killed his unit around 4/5 pm next morning.
Revisited 32 trap close yesterday - his unit
a starfruit. After dinner Bill & I looked for bird
lets + tree when we had seen by fruit lets last
night. Arrived at 10pm on 20th & immediately
shot 2 Pteropus (3088 + 3090). Also shot a
Rg. gaudius (big look) that was climbing up the trunk
of the same tree as the birds were feeding (3089). Spotted
it by eye shine as it hung very well camouflaged.
Quite a few other Pteropuses feeding - then +
fluttering around. In nets we had 2 Paranyctimene
(closely together) + 4 Syconops. When we got
back & took call culture from one of Pteropuses
+ preserved some of its liver for Hsu.
July 31
Checked traps + started carrying them in. Before
breakfast & brought : 17 of them down waterfall
+ all but 5 from airstrip line. After breakfast
Boris & I went down to retrieve the 15 traps
set at 1540 + 1620 hrs. Caught nothing in any of the.
Also nothing in the 4 star traps. Then first nets
found and 3 Macroglossus. Skinned 1 of Paranyctimene
+ the then young Phalanger that died (I was trying to keep
him alive long enough to get him back to Mainland).
Recorded my running traps, 15 from cave & 5 from
airstrip. Took a few photos around village. Beautiful
sunset. Noticed that the Paranyctimene skinning