4th Month APRIL 1959 30 Days Cloudy + RAIN ALL DAY. 13 MONDAY 103-262 (32) Oomsis Creek Today we cut bush tracks from the hogging paddock. Rain came Down in torrents — good shower! 3 Boys set 30 traps on tracks. Lovely 1° Forest. Shifted bat nets to fig tree. Baited 2 loop + pole traps for bandicoots. John + I shot another new bat at dusk. A fast, rangy flier. I shot one but we could not find it; also lost a Pip. New bat may be Taphozous. Very peculiar bent wing tip, throat gland, free tail from top of tail membrane. Lovely day. 14 TUESDAY 104-261 (33) Oomsis Creek 2 Melomys in traps. We again went after Taphozous but it was too nice a night. Saw only 1, flying late. John shot down the road + reported a medium-sized bat. Barrage, but no specimen. Big Dipper is over the road in one direction + southern cross the other. Down the valley we can see the Finesterre Mts, across the Markham Valley. John + I hacked a Brown cuscus & last night close to the creek E. of camp. Very large active pouch young. Climbed on our screens very easily. Beautiful, blue sky day. 15 WEDNESDAY 105-260 (34) Oomsis Creek Zerag brought in 2 fine white cuscuses (silver tobacco, 2 tins meat) 30 traps, 3 bat nets — no catch. Made up 2 Pips that we shot. Last night, blood sample + parasites. Worked on Zaglossus. Unpin- ned a few specimens; skulls drying well, skins also. Out tracking tonight until 10:45. Bad luck — wounded 2 big Pteropus neoh. (I flew away; the other dropped but hung up in another tree — may be down tomorrow). Wing-shooting; got 1 Pip on my first shot, then John + I double-teamed a large bat — Hipposideros, new for the trip. Many more flying in same spot. I crack at the Taphozous but did not get it. Big mail in from Lae this p.m. None from H. One from Dorothy posted on the 9th. John + I had a beer with Bill Jenkins (Forestry — 5 mi. down the road at 5:45). He lined his boys up + John asked them to watch out for bats + Pogonanys.