October 25th. Bright AM and PM--light rain 9 PM: Brass and Teerink got away 7 AM. Brass 3 Dyaks carriers and 1 boy--Teerink 2 earr- iers convicts, 8 police, 3 carriers with five days food to look for next camp. I'm staying to carry on radio argument with R.A. Few birds in forest today--down ridge to N. Papuans brought in many birds things. October 26th. Dull most of day--a little sunlight through clouds with short rain mid-afternoon clear tonight and chilly. Got the black and white long tailed bird I've hunted for 4 days--and it turns out to be breeding albististic Astymia, probably with nest and eggs. What an oppor- tunity lost. Natives brought in many things today-- a shell for most things but 2 or 3 of more common for one shell and refusing Melinata and Melidictes. As usual, a few men bringing in most of the things. Phascogale, white-eared. Today in the forest I watched one# for some time (chiefly glasses at 65 yards), perhaps 10 minutes, about 10 AM. It was apparently searching for food on the moss covered trunks and branches of second stage trees 10-35' up, in good forest. A very active beast, it usually worked its way slowly up a trunk and along branches, poking its nose here and there into the moss, continually keeping its tail close to trunk. The upper or under side of branches made no difference to it and it would frequently run along the underside. Frequently on smaller limbs it jumped from one to another as nimble as a squirrel. To get from one tree to another it would run down tree head first very quickly, to where it could cross in undergrowth. Much of the time it progressed very slowly, exploring the m moss. The tail was kept in line with body close to trunks and when sitting on bran- branch the tail hung free, it curved it forward, the white tip making this con-