Feb. 4 Draco. They felt quite sure that they could get native children to procure specimens but that they would be conster because the children knock them down with blow gun pellets. However, I was assured they would still be able to glide. I learned that Ptychozoon is truly a glider and that it is able to glide from a perch to catch insects. The location of a nest was known and a plan was laid to go thus. Mr. D. Wells, a graduate student in ornithology working under Dr. G. Medway (Office phone 89361, Exp. 244) told me about the gliding snake Chrysopelea paradisia which he says is quite common, although one does not often see it glide. It engages in slanting flight with its body held in a series of lateral undulations and its ribs expanded and belly concave. I saw a preserved specimen which was dark colored and flecked with numerous pale spots. The animal is very slender. I was told they could stage an aborigine hunting with blow gun. A bamboo splinter is fixed. The tip is poisoned with a bruised concoction from the "Ipoh" tree. The plant is mentioned in Binkle's, "Dictionary of Natural Products"