Diary - Van Deusen Masba Creek Camp 5 May 1964 (Tuesday) Sunny most of the day. It helped to dry out our camp clearing. Rain began to fall just at bat-shooting time (6:10 P.M.). However, it did not rain long. We saw Pipistrellus and Emballonura, but our wing shooting is still a bit rusty! We caught some rain in a plastic sheet for drinking water. Kim baked a new batch of bread - good! We had our first Melomys of the trip in one of Tobram's traps; large with white underparts - in rain forest. I made it up; also two Miniopterus that I brought down from our base camp at Pindiu. Stan photographed lizards, and he is keeping the Nyctimene alive for photographing. Ken shot a very large butterfly with a 12 gauge shot-gun (#9shot). Still alive but riddled with shot. Stan tried to photograph the proboscis. We rigged the botanical tent that Ru Hoogland and I sleep in in another location. Ken also rerigged his. Edewawa, our flower-flower boy, built a good "throne" for the small house! Mammals skins are drying in the tent on the usual pata-pata rigged in the V of the tent. The reason for our move is a large leaning tree. Len Brass impressed on me the danger of being in the fall-line of rain forest trees! It also interferes with bat shooting in the camp clearing. The tree must come down; it won't be wasted because Ru will collect samples. This was a big project. We tape-recorded the sounds of chopping and the cries of the men. About 100 assorted traps are out tonight. I used rat and bat bodies to bait a concealed 2-trap set at the end of a log over a gulley. Davida has his traps down on the Masba Creek. Flying foxes over camp tonight, but we cannot see them or shine their eyes. Some small mammal was "singing out" in a tree just outside our tent. I saw a pair of small eyes fleetingly.