4th Month APRIL 1959 30 Days 27 MONDAY 117-248 (46) Oomsis Bill Jenkins + Jack Levine (from Forestry Operations) came down after itai to go tracting with John + me. Poor flight, of course, for visitors. Shot i Miniopterus, 3 Syconycteris in nets. The whole business of lumbering by the government is a very wasteful business. 1000s of £s worth of equipment, taking only large trees for mill in lae, many smaller trees destroyed, no replanting done. Private logging would have to run much more efficiently to make profit. Really knock forest about. Log paddocks good for bat shooting at dusk. 28 TUESDAY 118-247 (47) Oomsis Good luck wing-shooting tonight - shot a second Taphozous! Sharp-eyed Hetana found it immediately! 72 traps, 6 steels, 2 nets, 3 live traps (along Oomsis Creek), i Melomys in steel set. John + I jacked from 8:30 to 11 p.m., shot i Gecko and collected a few frogs. Saw no mammals. This was in 1° forest where Lik Lik + I cut track a couple of weeks ago. Saw a beautiful large moth - eyes shining red in lamp. Woods very quiet except for frogs, a few insects + distant roar of brook. Rain after midnight. At least forestry will never make a mess of this slope. Overcast, then fair. 29 WEDNESDAY 119-246 (48) Oomsis 72 rat traps, 2 nets, 6 steels (#0) - 1 set, 3 livetraps. John found the bat he shot Mon. night at dusk. Another Taphozous! Fly blown but put it in formalin. This is our third one. Nothing in nets, steels, or live traps. Lik Lik, 1 yg. Uromys; Hetana 3 R. exulans, 2 Melomys, 1 R. ruber. Lionel Baker brought in 1 R. ruber, trapped in cacao plantation, destroying a lot of unripened pods. Bought an Echymipera from our neighbor. Parasites on the Taphozous we shot last night (3 kinds: wingless fly, lice (ticks)). Worked all day on skins. Bob Wright + 'fungus' 2 cadet foresters went out with Len this a.m., stayed for itai. John + I out at dusk - no bat flight. Message from John Womersley saying John Gunn may get job at Melbourne Zoo. John + I up at 5:45 a.m. to try for bats, saw 2 Taphozous, high.