China field catalogue #1-111 and journal, v4158
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Stein, B.R. 1988 3 Aug. an hour after he put them up + then left them all night. Can't believe he's letting stuff go - he says they're so common in Yunnan! Hope we can change his mind. He wants everything live for ectoparasites and may frown on our snap trapping. Graham (thinkling got one Niviventor on traps we set at the last minute under the bridge by the main building. He wants guts, I'll tissue + then pickle. We are definitely not in primary forest altho we did seem to drive through such an area about 10min. before arriving here. Also the Institute has control over such an area which they did/would not even let us look at last year but are willing to this year. Nothing will probably be done until Wudelin gets here tonite. Art is now negotiating to get some lab space set up so we can begin processing animals. With the Chinese everything is one delay after another. The area where our traps were set has palms, 6' grasses, and rubber trees being tapped. The bat nets went up in an area that had been cleared. At 2:30 we were to go to 1° forest - instead got a tour of rubber, tea, coffee trees in the experimental station. Were finally taken to a small area of 2° forest to trap. Set out Shermans, Victors, Museum specials + one (g.) high bat net. Won't be