-75- One of the common sounds of the wild here is a frog call which when coming from several of the creatures, sounds for all the world like concerted cackling in a distant fowl yard. Between showers this morning, Van applied himself to the discovery of the frog concerned. The source of sound difficult to pinpoint, but eventually, with the help of the cook, one of the noisemakers was uncovered from under about four inches of loose humus in a raspberry tangle bordering the forest. Three more specimens subsequently captured by Losima, the energetic #2 cook, reddish brown and about 1-1/2 inches long, the frog has a row of short spines outlining the jaws below. Some of my time spent in trying to net dragonflies which hawked for insects in the camp hollow in sunny spells between rains. Single individuals of a largish species which flew like Anax, and a small blue@black kind. No dragonfly or damselfly has been caught in this locality to date. They are seldom seen. Sunday, June 14, 1953: Max. 21°, Min. 9°C. Morning clear but for high broken thin clouds. Showers heavier than yesterday's, began at 11 A.M. Fairly clear tonight. Misty rain after 9 P.M. Botanized on the grasslands near camp where walking is easy, and recollected several herbaceous spp. previously taken near the summit of the mountain. Sent the boys to the upper slopes of the Gwariu Gorge with fairly good results, among them a 4th species of Helicia for the locality, and the birds'nest fern Asplenium nidus, which on this mountain reaches the upper limit of its range at about 2100 m. Lured by rat bodies, a marsupial cat (Satanellus Albopunctatus @ formerly Dasyurus) was trapped in camp last night. Delousing gave a good crop of ectoparasites for Traub in Washington. Monday, June 15, 1953: Max. 22°, Min. 7°C. High thin cirrus clouds w th the colder morning. Intermittent mist after ten o'clock; light shower at noon; otherwise a fine day. As it seems unlikely that I will be able to do any hard travel in this, our last week at this camp, I sent my boys down into the Gwariu Gorge and spent the day making and developing black and white photos. Am reduced to one camera for both black and white and color work. My Leica developed shutter trouble and I started it on the way to Australia for overhaul by last mail runner. Temperature of water in the camp stream 56° F. Therefore necessary to heat water in the sun or on the fire for photographic purposes. With my two boys went Jimmy the hunter and the two bug boys. They had rice to cook for lunch and as a special treat from our now slim stocks, a can of bully beef. The party followed my track which hits the river at 2030 m., and returned to camp at 5 o'clock. No mammals. Two butterflies new to the collection, plus sp cies of large bettles which are already over-collected. Plant results not up to expectations, but complete material of a big palm (Orania) were well collected. The boys do well for their 3 months of training. There is no real way to collect plants but in person.