[Journal] March 6-November 22, 1933
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time 1:35 air temp 30.0 c boiling point 89.4 android 720 air known uncovered 727.81 M.D.II. = 410mtn a Autamus flying over catching insects. There were also a number of the purple colored flying about and several other birds. Shortly homwards I was again startled and released o. I got back to the combino and shot about 11:00 and about 45 mins before lunch resty and writing note. After lunch I took out all the instruments while writing up the notes a bunch of birds came over but I went out to get some it was raining slightly when I left but I had only gotten bridle into the woods when it came on its fully pour, so hard that I could scarcely see and its water ran down my neck so fast that I quickly got as sort as though. I hadn't any slicker I did last get a Hoodmer Muscatlaurus. When I came in I decided that it was no use sitting around wet so I went down to the river very fast, and what was a roaring Torrent. I shot a centronus on its way down, and a flock of Birds of Paradise. A shoot the valley there was three white Perrotos and another large black bird with a white bar on his tail. I saw a number of fair sized runways in the dark grass at the bottom. I did not go into the rain first. I came up straight up the valley to the place where I saw the wallpigs in the morning but saw nothing of them. There were quite a number of the same swito that I shot yesterday s. I had a wild good chase after some red headed juards and just below earbin in some grass I shot two green warblers (black+white). After supper I went shooting and got 2 night jays. Theirs eyes shined like lightes I have ever seen yellowish white. The first was sitting on a fince foot and the second was on the top of a