AWAY ALL DAY COLLECTING, KEN SHOT 2 MORE PIGEONS + A SCRUB HEN TODAY. HAD THEM FOR DINNER. OUT JAKING TONIGHT - TOOK A 3 FT. TREE SNAKE HOME TO GEOFF. MISSED A RAT & A BAT. DAVID HAD MORE LUCK - HE SHOT A GIANT BANDICOOT + A UROMYS. I SHOT A HIPPOSIDEROS BEFORE DINNER. IT HAS BEEN VERY HUMID TODAY WITH A LITTLE BREEZE. NOW AGAIN. A PERSISTENT FROG CHORUS TONIGHT. BOUGHT BAM- BOO PIPE + STRING CARRYING BAG FOR ANTHROPOLOGY. 243 (214) MON. AUG. 31 12.2 PERIA RIVER, KEN'S CARRY DOWN TO KWAGIRA WENT OFF WITHOUT A HITCH. LEFT AT 9:30 + BACK AT 12:45. CAMP IS LOOKING BARE - OUR FINAL CARRY NEXT MONDAY WILL BE LIGHT. SMALL BOYS BROUGHT IN SOME LOWER MANDIBLES - 2 WALLARIES, WHITE CUSCUS + A BANDICOOT. 2 RATTUS + 2 MELOMYS IN TRAPS. LOVELY DAY WITH BREEZE. RAIN LATE AFTERNOON BUT NOT ENOUGH TO SPOIL JAKING. WE HIT THE JACKPET. DAVID SHOT 3 BANDICOOTS, I SHOT 1, AND KEN A CUSCUS + A UROMYS. 3 OF THE BANDICOOTS HAVE POUCH YOUNG! GEOFF CUT MORE TRAIL - STILL HASN'T REACHED THE NEXT RIVER WEST. KEN IS MAKING PLANS TO COLLECT A FEW MAMMALS FOR ME AFTER WE LEAVE PATUA. HE IS VERY KEEN ON HUNTING. PIGEON STEW FOR DINNER. WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF TOBACCO + TEN HAS ALREADY STARTED ON TRADE TOBACCO. I RAN OUT OF CANDY LONG AGO! 244 (215) TUES. SEPT. 1 12.1 PERIA RIVER. 1 MELOMYS IN TRAPS. JUST AS WELL BECAUSE WE HAD A LONG MORNING PREPARING BANDICOOTS. TEN SKINNED THE UROMYS + THEN TRIED HIS HAND AT FILLING IN THE P.M. HE NEEDED A LITTLE RESCUE WORK BUT HE DID VERY WELL FOR A FIRST SKIN. WRAPPED A FEW MORE SKINS - WILL HAVE A BOX FOR THE THURS. SEMI-FINAL CARRY. GEOFF FINALLY REACHED HIS RIVER - ABOUT DUE N. OF THE GWARIW RIVER GORGE ON THE MANEU RANGE. DAVID SHOT A PIGEON (GAURA) WHICH WE HAD FOR DINNER - LOTS OF WHITE BREAST MEAT. BAT SHOOTING TONIGHT BUT MY REFLEXES WERE TOO SLOW. HEARD SCOLDING OF DACTYLOPSILA TONIGHT BUT KEN + I COULD NOT LO- CATE HIM IN TREE. BOBBY BROUGHT IN AN OWL. I MAY WORK ON THIS IF I HAVE ONLY A FEW MAMMALS. EACH & BANDICOOT HAD A POUCH YOUNG. DAVID + TOMMY BROUGHT IN TRAPS TODAY. SPECIMEN COUNT - 1580.