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July-5
suspecting that these would be almost the last of this species that we
would encounter during the expedition. In fact, after reaching Mongi
River drainage we never heard another of these curious little frogs with
their ventriloqual piping calls. Hoogland's camp, which came to be known
in my notes as the "Plains of Ulur Camp" came into sight at 4:00 P.M.
The carriers set up camp just within the fringe of the tall forest and
bedded down in bark shelters for the night. Hoogland had set up camp
on a high rise of ground in the grassland just outside the edge of the
forest, and about 100 yards above and to the west of where the Mongi
River emerged from the forest. The view to the north to the beautiful
forest covered ridge of the Cromwell Mountains was a striking and never
to be forgotten sight. The elevation at our camp site was 7,800 feet
(
m.).