[Journal, 7th Archbold Expedition to New Guinea] April 21 to June 1, 1964
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- 2 - Stan photographed the fore feet and hind feet of Macruromys for me. The light was too poor to take movies of our growing store of live snakes. Fresh bread today! We are eating well. Kim never loses his touch! A remarkable man and the best bush cook I've ever known (Len Brass is of the same opinion). Stan, Tobram , and I jacked from 8:30 P.M. to 9:45 on the upper (west) trail. We heard both Dobsonia, which hovers rather heavily beneath the canopy (unlike Pteropus which is always in the forest canopy), and Nyctimene, which has a peanut-vender-like whistle while in flight. However, we couldn't see a single individual-frustrating! Nyctimene should be caught in our mist nets, but no luck since Pindiu. No luck bat shooting at dusk. I do not like the slide-action gun I brought out for a trial. The shells stick in this humid rain forest climate.