109 Recce. Lufa-Gono pretty wild, and still eat their dead. Saturday, August 22. Left Lufa after breakfast with the McSevenys and on the way back to Goroka examined the beech forest of the timber concession area for a camp site. The only feasible place was in a bend of the road on the Lufa side of and 100 feet or so below the crest of the 7000-ft. spur ridge. Reached Danny Leahy's place on the Bena Bena about 1:30. Temperature in the house 85 F. Conditions very dry in the valley, and although the coarse grass cover of Themeda gigantea, pit-pit, etc. looked green, there had been several recent fires and two were burning this afternoon. Van's trapping had yielded only Rattus ruber and R. exulans, the latter very common. Rousettus, the first for the trip, taken in one of three bat nets set under fig trees of the F. ribes type. From a native on the edge of one of the grassfires on the road back to Goroka a specimen of Echymipera kaluba, with most of its hair scorched off, was bought (its skull, for a shilling). The few plants collected on the trip were all new to the collection: an Echinocarpus, a cunon., an Elaeocarpus and a Carpodetus (?) from the subcanopy of the beech forest of the timber concession area; a remarkable, bracted, green flowered Loranthus from the same area; a pink Rhododendron from the grasslands towards the Kami, etc. A feather-leaved palm was common in the beech forest on the Gono side of Mt. Michael up to the 7680-ft. high point on the road, which is very high for that type of palm in New Guinea. The area promised well for plants. It is quite unknown for mammals. On the Gono side one has the feeling of being away from Central Highlands of New Guinea and close to the lower mountain country of Papua, which indeed is so. This could mean important zoological changes. We have an order in for food supplies for 3 weeks. On Monday we will leave Goroka with plans for a first Mt. Michael camp at Gono Resthouse, a second in the timber concession.