[Journal, June 18 to November 26, 1929]
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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-