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25 M.S. Richardson
1938.
General Account
the slack periods managed to get at two
lines of rat traps, one of 144 traps along the
base of the rock cliff. It is in a variety of
habitat within this region of the cliff line -- lush
brushy stream side, grassy stream side and slope, brushy
slopes, many forest slopes, base of cliffs with red services,
grey granite beneath cliff, etc.
The other line of
38 (total 187 traps) rat traps were set along
the grassy reverse of the back of head of
the canyon valley. For this we small runways
and it was in them that the traps were set.
The count today which checked with
previous counts of the traps in camp is --
Rat traps 187, Mouse traps 194, Steel traps 15
There will be more which are scheduled
to arrive with tomorrow transport.
Septs item #2: Williamson Top, Netherlands Flat June 36.00m.
187 Rat traps -- 1 Pankey drongoes, 1 flychongs,
1 Flatters, 9 Stormys (5 dinads). 1 One Stormy set by collector diradd.
This morning tended stray and while
Maurice was left to prepare the specimens
the two Dyaks and I set out the small
mouse traps. The two begins over
camp and follows along the open brushy
stream came South East up the canyon.
It goes south for about 1/2 kilometer of
the gap and it the side hill above through
brushy regions in open grassy slope and slightly
along the grassy base of a large limestone
cliff. The from the cliff base if you
goes down through the heavy moss covered brush and
for a short way down the open grassy camp
slope. Then goes to about 300 m
higher than camp and passes through
most of the conceivable habitats of the
till slope east of camp.
This morning the transport arrived.