Field notes, v1442
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LIDICKER 1965 Aug. 18 cont. Leave at 1330. We flew Ligh because of lots of rain storms. Finally landed at Maleny about 1750. Naturally there was nobody to meet us. We managed to get in touch with Buster Bowman who is the Alpha Helix Customs Agent in Maleny. He picked us up at 1830 and we finally got to Maiwar at 1900. After dinner it was mostly unrefining species talking with Silley and others. It looks like the Sarina trip is now since Zweifel who was organizing it, is not able to get to out of Darwin until tomorrow, so my scheduled flight goes in to Sarina for week, on Weds. (Aug. 20) Aug. 19 Worked on 3 Phelayers, 2 from Green Gene while we brought back skins and 1 P. orientalis that G. Cooper and Wilson bought back from Kar Kar dealt with them. Also skinned a Nyctimera (med. sized species) from Kar Kar. Zweifel did not get in again today. Baxter O'Brien went out and shot 5 water buffalos today (Bubalus). Apparently they were introduced along time ago to work rice fields which now developed. Vince and I went to Alexistoke where 2 were brought in for butchering and got a good sample of blood. Then we looked around the old Alexistoke WWII airfield and saw a number of old wrecked planes (at least 1 was Johnson) and numerous bomb craters all over the old airfield. Worked on phelayers night