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At I set more traps on
edge of rice fields & then
tried the dogs to the tiger traps.
There was again at 10 PM. but
it lasted only a few minutes,
but the thunder & lightening
continued all day night.
24th they cloudy but very
calmly, in the tiger traps
there was only working.
some turned the dogs loose &
they returned home. Thereat
traps caught only 2 Spiny rats
& one shrew in some 6 traps.
Everyone went bird hunting
but without great success. There
are few birds here & these only
a few species. Among them
are billbills dral loris, chickens,
Red billed magpies, & species of long-
tailed, owlets & laughing thrushes.
The orchid flowers are all white
rose a Magolle (Myrica) a pink
Flowered Dacifrag & a few Salvias
Compositae were just seen in flower.
Caldwell says that a Sanitral
Lee has been shot near Yupung
up the Mani River also Serano, at black.