- 3 - 4/21 grass house. The latter had been the house of the P. O. until a few months before when a "proper house" was built for the Willards. Perfectly suited to the climate at an elevation of 3000 feet this native-built grass hut on posts with thatched roof and open-air veranda for working space became "home" immediately. We christened it the Country Club! After a bit of cold lunch we put up our simple knockdown cots, and organized our collecting gear. Later Stan and I walked west along a trail that climbed out of our little dead-end valley, and passed over the crest of the ridge to the north-west. The weather was clear and we had lovely views of the surrounds of Pindiu and the valley of the Mongi. Clouds then drifted in and closed the view and wetted the grass along the ridge trail. This is highly disturbed country and we must plan to move out to good primary forest in a week or two. We called at the house kiap to pay our respects to "Ren" Willard. Her husband will be on patrol until next Saturday. "Ren" is the sister of Jim Sinclair whom we met in Wau in 1959 where he was A. D. O. "Ren" is most hospitable and loves New Guinea. She does not simply "endure" the country as do so many Australian wives. After a cup of tea or two we waited out a hard rain that moved south down the narrow Mongi River valley (3 P.M.). The new house kiap is attractive and located about 100 yards from our "Country Club"; it looks east over the airstrip and to the mountains beyond the Mongi. After kai I walked through the local garden patches. The moon was out, the air was soft and smelled of the tropics, and the swish of flying fox wings filled the air. Most of them are Dobsonia. I shot my first fox of