Feb. 6.. 201 In his backyard Midway has a garden f corn and Tapioca planted by his aboriginal family. The plants are in random arrangement. He has two tan-colored dogs with small fox-like ears and short straight hair. These larger are stood about 1 ft. high. He said these were the dogs of the aborigines and that their line could be traced back, virtually unchanged to the neolithic. The jungle fowl gallus g. gallus and the gibon occur near his place. We heard a pheasant and a barbet. There are some 12 species of rats. It is said there may be 100 species of trees per acre in rainforest. He expected to hear a whip-poor-will at dusk but it did not perform. The black panther is fairly common and is the spotted form. We dined on tapir stakes roasted over a woodfire outdoors.