squeaks when frightened & made great leaps. When handled they turned over as quick as a weasel were very agile. The natives brought in 2 snakes frogs & a Myotis. In the afternoon the Mandarin called & offered to trace the 18 stolen rat traps. Two old men from the sun-moon village visited us also. Every other trap being stolen accounted only 1 Paragrat 3 Spaygurus, a great number of skins of birds, rats etc were brought to us by the natives & the priest. 6 day raining without any sunshine. We caught only a few small mammals in traps set in the great dry hillside. Two of the turpises died during the night one escaped. Adults are not easily tamed. The 2 weasel organs are quite peculiar desemble those of the mole, the vagina being with loss a long