84 Pengagl Creek A hasty gathering of a few plants growing near camp, and left for such a day, was all I could do in the field. However, I had a big lot of material on hand that needed attention today after a double shift on the drying apparatus which kept me up until 12:30 a.m. Insects came in to the light trap sporadically during last night's watch, and the catch was good in total. Van had little on his table today: 3 common Rattus niobe, a R. ruber (first for the mountain) brought from down Keglsugl way by a native, and a Pipistrellus shot last night. Van realizes now that a native dog has been going the rounds of his personal trapline. All meat baits and lures were cleaned up last night, and several traps sprung including 3 steels. The suspected canine culprit was seen by Van last night. Three new traplines tonight. Monday, July 6. Max. 14.5, min. 6.5 C. Clear and sunny to about 10 a.m.; rain began 11:45 and continued with very little interruption until near dark. The three of us had a moderate stack of mail prepared to catch the regular Monday plane of the Mission at Keglsugl, but the plane arrived much earlier than expected and had gone before our messenger arrived. Had a good morning in the field, up the old trail parallel with the creek to where it comes on to the creek again. Have 23 numbers processed and six left over owing to shortage of dryers. The take includes two canopy trees: a common Timonius which looks like a species first collected just below the subalpine on the slopes, and an Elaeocarpus with golden yellow young leaves which make it conspicuous in the forest. Almost omitted to mention another canopy tree collected: the Decaspermum (so it appears without comparison of material) which came in at the lower levels of the subalpine and persists commonly down to at least this level. Had my boys cut a tall old Pandanus of the kind which bears edible large seeds and is called Karuka in the Chimbu. A big red-flowered Dimorphantera was massed on the pandan. And among the dead old leaves my boys, rummaging around, found a leaf nest with two Pogonomys in it; the species new to the collection. John steel-trapped a third Parahydromys, several Rattus niobe from the new traplines; and, brought up from down below by a native, late in the day, were 3 Petaurus tafa. Tuesday, July 7. Max. 16.5, min. 7 C. Last night partly cloudy, partly clear. This morning clear and sunny to about 10 o'clock; overcast after that and some mist on the heights but no rain here. Botanized for about 1/2 mile down the slopes towards Keglsugl. Wit the good visibility of the earlier part of the morning I spotted two more canopy trees in fertile condition and collected them: Platea and one of the Cunoniaceae which looks like Schizomeria but has 3-5 foliate leaves. I followed the pathway. Most of the trees my boys cut fell over the road, which of course had to be cleared at considerable expense of time and labor. Some spot lumbering for pit- sawing has been done in the Territory I visited and in consequence conditions were disturbed locally and scrambling bamboo running rampant.