arrived before bedtime with a telegram & some letters. The Wednesday vs dull red brown salamander comprised our catch. There was no rainclouds all day. At 4 P. M. were well in virgin forest on a high ridge overhanging pool, bamboo, thickets & dry grass weeds. Great cliffs of gray limestone could be seen peaking part of the forest. The forest had no pines or evergreens in it being green leaved trees of flower and evergreen oaks, figs etc. & somewhat Tropical in character. The climate was cool at noon & pretty bright the altitude at least 700 feet. The forest was damp, the trees top overgrown by moss. Small traps were set about camp which was pitched in a open meadow at the head of a forested ravine with great limestone cliffs looming up out of the forested ridges above camp. Before going to bed we looked at our traps that had 20 mammals, chiefly a gray small Apodemas new a