IN P.M. SOME YOUNG BOYS SHOWED UP FROM OPAIGWARI WITH ANOTHER GIANT BANDICOOT (THIS, HOWEVER, WEIGHTED ONLY 6 LBS.) + A SMALL BROAD- NOSED BAT. FINISHED THEM ALL BEFORE DINNER. SET TRAPS AROUND POOL WHERE I SAW WATER BAT. THEY FOUND BANDICOOT IN A FERM UNDER A FALLEN TREE. TACKING TONIGHT YIELDED NOTHING. HEARD FLYING FOXES BUT DID NOT HAVE A SHOT. HOME AT 9 P.M. + AM READING ONE OF GEOFF'S DETECTIVE STORIES FOR A CHANGE. 233 (204) FRIDAY, AUG. 21, 1953 132 PERIA RIVER. NOTHING IN TRAPS. HOWEVER, I HAS 2 LIVE POGONOMYS FROM THE DAY BEFORE (ALSO 3 MORE BUT THEY GNAWED A HOLE IN THE BLACK BOX + DEPARTED DURING THE NIGHT). AWANI + KWAGIRA PEOPLE CAME IN WITH VEGETABLES ABOUT NOON. RUN ON SALT + PAPER. SOME FINE BANANAS + TARS. ABOUT 6 P.M., I TOOK MY BOYS DOWN THE KWAGIRA TRAIL TO THE FIRST RIVER CROSSING — FINE RUN OF WATER. CUT OVER TO THE PERIA — ABOUT 200 YDS. AWAY — ALSO RUNNING HERE (BUT NOT AT CAMP). FLOOD PLAIN AREA, HIGH GRASS. WADED UP RIVER TO CAMP. HERE I FOUND A LOT OF BOYS FROM OPAIGWARI WITH SPECIMENS FOR ME — POGONOMYS, PETRAURUS + A LOT OF SMALL BROAD-NOSED BATS. MORE MATCHES + PAPER + EVERYONE WAS HAPPY. TACKING TONIGHT! I DABSONIA, SAW A SMALL BANDICOOT, SHOT A 6 FT. TREE SNAKE (NEW FOR COLLECTION). POLICE RUNNER CAME IN WHILE I WAS OUT. CAPT. SMITH WILL BE AT BALIWA TO PICK US UP ON SEPT. 10. NO MAIL OUT! A BUNDLE OF NEWSPAPERS. RUNNER SAW KEN AT PEM — ON WAY TO TAPIO. RULED NOTE BOOK. HAVE ALMOST 1500 SPECIMENS NOW. 234 (205) SAT., AUG. 22, 1953 131 PERIA RIVER. THE END OF OUR 22ND WEEK IN THE FIELD. WE BEGAN OUR WORK JUST 5 MONTHS AGO TODAY AT MENAPIL. ALMOST 1500 SPECIMENS IN THE BOOK. WE HAD 2 RATTUS + A DARK MELOMYS IN TRAPS. MADE 14 SKINS UP TODAY — KEPT ME AT MY WORK BENCH ALL DAY. POOR GEOFF GOT RUSHED THIS P.M. + DID NOT GET BACK TO CAMP UNTIL 1700. HE WALKS WASTING ALL THAT COLLECTING TIME HE COULD PUT IN ON IT — TENSIVE COLLECTING NEAR CAMP. NEW INSECTS WALK ACROSS MY SKINNING BOARD EVERY DAY. LOVELY MOON TONIGHT. LILIK LIK FOUND A SMALL CUS- CUS ON RIVER BANK AFTER DINNER. IT RUN UP A TREE + ISILELE AFTER IT. THEN IT FELL OUT OF TREE + SCAMPERED OFF THRU THE FOREST WITH NIMO, BILLY, LL. + T. IN CHASE — THEY CAUGHT IT. LILIK LIK IS AS PROUD AS PUNCH. THIS IS HIS FIRST ACKING SPECIMEN. KEN SHOULD BE AT TAPIO TODAY: WHAT BATS WILL HE FIND? E., LL.L. HAVE NEW TRAP LINES.