Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (2 of 5)
Page 90
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a lot of Microliths for the first time today. They are really abundant in the banks of ditches but not along streams or in rock walls or hedges. This the larger Lichinury Species. (30) The weather today was raining & windy like yesterday. Scantful a new Shrew in the forest today, It had a long tail x long hind leg & is again spring from now doubt. In color it's slaty x grey with a long naked tail. The traps contained 21 mammals chiefly Microliths + 2 species of Apodems. The ratline hunters have been out 3 days now but have returned with game. (31) The traps produced another longtailed Shrew + one of the rare black Crocidura like those from timber-line camp. Some of the rat traps had a white belled mouse different from the timberline specimen. This one yesterday out the recipient of a large rat caught in the same trap. At Augments Shrews landscape was covered by a