Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (2 of 5)
Page 110
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Smithsonian Institution Archives. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
sunset but the caravan is to follow on the 18th Kelloggs mind is still to come having been seriously jarred poor wretch. 16 The day was cloudy & cold but calm. The traps set for carnivores yielded nothing except a babbling thrush. Two squirrels a chipmunk were seen amidst the raw weather. I shot a Phasianus elegans today in the fields at Black water Creek & saw another at the summit in the pine forest, both solitary birds. The hunter returned today with a gy g Goral the size of my specimen. 17 We endured another cold cloudy morning but in the late afternoon the sun came out. The steel traps produced nothing & were taken up, On the mouse traps I captured a long pointed shrew like the species at Timberline Camp. I shot a new species of pintuck a small gray breasted black brested one saw another, a large green species,