82 Piunde-Aunde-Pengagl Creek Small boys brought in about half a dozen frogs of two or three species. Payment for these is a quarter of a stick of trade tobacco or half a page of the Bergen Evening Record per frog. Wednesday, July 1. Steady light rain resumed about 7:30 last night. Sky clear towards morning. A raw, overcast dawn with wind coming down the creek from the heights; very little sun all day; no rain. Worked the morning on collections on hand. Having no room for any more vascular plants, I spent part of the afternoon gathering mosses -- 22 species. This moist forest abounds in bryophytes low on the trees, on logs and stumps, and on the predominantly woody undergrowth. Most of them are of pale brown or brownish green color. Many of them give a fuzzy effect to the trees. Work of completing the rigging of camp goes on in a rather desultory fashion. Today a bathhouse has been built, and a lean-to for my thermometers. Our Pengagl Lodge has not the comforts it might have. It would be improved by steam heating. The big fireplace does not thrownough heat out into the big living-bedroom. Abundant ground moisture is coming to the surface. Excepting in the neighborhood of the fireplace the lodge is damp and cold. Now at twenty to six in the evening, John the unreliable is off somewhere in the bush, and Van is contriving a makeshift for the door which should have been built this morning to keep out a wind which comes down from the heights regularly at night. Forty-five traps set last night yielded 7 specimens: the common Rattus niobe and 2 Melomys species. An Antechinus brought in by a native. Another pipistrellus shot last night. My first light trapping for insects at the camp was spoiled by the rain last night; catching promises well. Today I had a fancy hood for the trap made of sticks and a sheet of the sisal kraft paper which I carry for the emergency pick- ling of plants. Thursday, July 2. First recording on the minimum thermometer was a chilly 6,5 C. this morning. Temperature outside my work tent 42 F. at 6:30 a.m. Clear early morning followed about 8 a.m. by nearly constant cloud from Bundi Gap; drizzle to light steady rain from 2:30 p.m. to 8:30. Botanized down Pengagl Creek to its junction with the drainage stream of the Piunde-Aunde Lakes, there called the Iubuka stream; distance about one-third of a mile. Left plants growing near camp for easy collecting on a rainy day. Have about half-dozen numbers left over after filling all my dryers. Nothing very exciting but it was interesting to find Coriaria a common shrub of the floodbanks. Poor visibility limited my collecting to the banks of the creek. Insects are coming in rather well. About half-dozen butterflies of three spp. today; numerous spiders collected by two urchins who accompanied me most of the morning; last night too cold with a breeze coming down from the alpine heights for much to come to the light trap. Today's big catch was over 30 damselflies which I found immobilized by the cold, perched on the stems of a grass tussock in the creek bed. We just picked them off with our fingers and put them into the killing bottle. Van and John jacking last night, in different directions, until about 10:30 without seeing a thing. Trap yield fell off to a solitary Rattus niobe. A bat net set on the Keglsugl path caught nothing. Two more Antechinus brought in by natives.