THURS. 23 APRIL 1964 I SPENT THE MORNING MAKING UP THE TWO DOBSONIA THAT KEN LAID FOR LAST NIGHT NEAR THE COUNTRY CLUB. ONE WAS A FEMALE WITH A YOUNG ONE NEAR TERM. STAN VERY CAREFULLY PREPARED THE "MOPOTE" OR FROGMOUTH THAT HE SHOT LAST NIGHT. HE THEN SLIPPED IT INTO ONE OF RUTH'S SILK STOCKINGS TO DRY. STAN PHOTOGRAPHED THE GECKO WE SHOT LAST NIGHT; ALSO A PICTURE OF TOBRAM AND MYSELF BAITING TRAPS. I SHOT A PICTURE OF STAN WITH A DOBSONIA WITH WINGS OUTSTRETCHED. THERE WAS NOTHING IN THE MIST NET THAT WE STRETCHED NEAR THE "MOOLEY TREE". TONIGHT WE HAD KAI AT 5:15 P.M.: SOUP, RICE MIXED WITH SARDINES OR SOME OTHER FISH, PAWPAW. FRESH BREAD CAME IN ON ONE OF THE THREE TRIPS THE AZTEC MADE TO PINDIU TODAY. THEY ARE BRINGING IN CEMENT FOR MINDIK. WE JUMPED UP EACH TIME TO SEE IF OUR THREE PAPUANS WERE ABOARD. AFTER KAI WE HAD A GOOD CHANCE AT A SMALL BAT NEAR THE HOUSE BUT MISSED. WE TOOK OUR MIST NET DOWN TO THE STREAM ABOUT 3/4S OF A MILE FROM THE CLUB. TOBRAM HAS 20 TRAPS ON THIS TRAIL AND ALONG THE STREAM. STAN AND TOBRAM WENT TO THE END OF OUR HACKING TRAIL THROUGH THE SAGO SWAMP. I CAME HOME TO WRITE NOTES, CLEAN & DRY SKULLS. RU HAD FOUND A SNAKE ON THE PATH TO THE SMALL HOUSE, AND HAD SHOT IT TWICE; IT WAS HANGING BY THE NECK WHEN I ARRIVED BACK. STAN HOME FROM JACKING AT 10:30. NO MAMMALS BUT ANOTHER LOVELY OLIVE-YELLOW GECKO, AND TWO TINY FROGS - THE ONE THAT HAVE BEEN CALLING IN THE PANDANUS. KEN NOT HOME AT 11:15 P.M.