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I saw a Lemur this morning he was making
a scolding noise & when I attempted to shoot
he went off through the trees with surpris
ease & swiftness. No - might when we were
returning from a point down thru road we saw
in the road a small animal I shot when
the disappeared and he came running
back & I missed him again. I think he was
a fossafossa his gait resembled some what
like a robot, that is he hopped along. His eyes
shone brightly.
July 6, 1929
Max 7 & min 53
The weather was clear all day except for a
heavy shower of duck.
I caught mothing in my trap. On
the path to the All Orin, when I was almost through
the woods I came upon a bunch of Slenvers.
They were playing about in the trees. I shot
5 of them. One a male g & oat on a branch
of a tree that was too far away for him to jump.
In the afternoon I went down the path
again. In the grassland I shot two Falco
newtoni & one Milvus migrans parsetus.
The Falcons were chasing the shot (milvus).
On the way back I tried to catch with-
out any success some bats that kept with a
butterfly net. I also saw an L-lemur they were
near the place what I shot too 5 in its
manny. I shot one but it was too dark to-