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30 We caught only one weasel
today in the steel traps. There
were rats or mice in the
rat traps. I shot a few greenkit,
a tailor bird + a blue magpie.
During the night it rained +
there was distant thunder +
lightning. In the P.M. a mild
storm visited us with heavy rain.
31 At daybreak Caldwell went
out for trips but saw nothing in
the rice fields across the valley.
The weasel I caught yesterday
was quite different from the ones
caught at Longton by Andrews. It
was small + dark brown above
with yellowish belly while the
others were light tawny yellow
both above + below the belly
being merging in color with the
rock. Caldwell departed for
the monastery across the mountain
where At K'are hunting for
tigers. I went up to the
upper traps after breakfast
+ found a P Palancir,
Paradocurus in a the steel trap.
Day cloudy + very humid + without
any breeze. Caldwell says the