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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