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one, afraid of camp, kept jumping out and swimming away.
Toxopeus came to stay this PM - put camp in uproar and confusion - why
no bed -
In PM jacking into mouth of stream to East - 6-8 Dobsonia about a
fruiting? tree - see them over stream flying from South to tree (eyes
gleam orange yellow) and hear them flapping wings in tree - Shot one -
probably other species here including a big Pteropus?. Returning found two
young crocodiles three feet long on submerged shrubs forest edge - only
see red orange eyes of course - shot one twenty yards - stone dead - didn't
sink because of shrubs - but boy tied it prauw.
April 12, 1939.
Fine sunny all day - canoe trip as yesterday - but went ashore in a few
places - a solitary small Pteropus hanging asleep twenty feet up in dense
foliage of tree hanging over water.
Six or so little blue kingfishers - scuttle across water from shrubbery
to shrubbery and always disappear inside - unable to see any sitting -
shot one on wing -
Saw one Phalocrorax melaleuca
In evening upstream by camp. Early before very dark - many - 10 - 20
very small, erratic bats close about face of forest edge.
Four Eurystomes playing about over top of forest trees - apparently not
hunting - and one Hemiproce occasionally visited them.
After dark located one nightjar by its eye - top of tree - but didn't
get it.
This AM several times saw Artitis hypoleuca - first time here.