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I got back to camp after setting out two more sets
of S about 10 o'clock and went out shortly down
the road I skated the road on top of the steep hill
or rather just before and went to the top of the fall where
I shot at and missed a fairly long hawk and
from there I went went straight down to the meeting
The road where it make the hairpin turn I did not see
anything until I had gotten back to the place where
I skated it and then I shot a gray warbler, a
and a oratorica. I got back to camp sometime
after eleven and it shortly came on to rain raining
quite hard off and on for the rest of the day and night.
It took me the rest of the day to clean out two of
the nets and partly finish scaling the Megani (Meropini?) as
he is called by the Motuans and local white.
March 10, 1935
The weather to day so far has been dull with the
sky practically entirely overcast. It started to spitch
when I was visiting early trap but I did not amount to
anything. One trap in set No. 4, 5 & 7 loose strong and
pulled out at 7 there were some Centrifuge feathers. At seven
eight I got a rat of 32 same species. After supper
was finished. After supper I went down the road shooting.
I shot a frog mouth out of a tree just below camp. I
did not see anything further until I went past the
hairpin bend where I shot out of a Umbrella two a Petaurus
his eyes shone rather well out of some as well as its right
paw and I then turned back and was about half way
up the hill when I shot at and missed a night hawk.
March 11, 1935
The weather was the same as yesterday. I took
the anemoid along and found the altitude of the
various site as follows camp set at 460.
1- — 4 - 490 16 - 580
2- — 5 - 510 7 - 590
3- — 6 - 560 8 - 595
At set no. 7 I got a light Brown rat. It was in
the same trap as the one before. Hand shot a
Megany & with a small young in the pouch