# 56 298 269 SUN. OCT. 25, 1953 67 #2 CAMP (900M). NOTHING IN TRAPS BUT NIKO JACKED A NEW SPECIES OF POGONOMYS (SMALL SCARED TAIL, WHITE TAIL-TIP, HEAVY INCISORS, SHORT HIND FOOT + SHORT EARS. WAKONAI COUNSELOR TELLS ME IT LIVES IN HOLES IN GROUND. NIKO WAS OUT SETTING TRAPS THIS P.M. + FOUND + CHAPPED DOWN ANOTHER POGONOMYS TREE - 5 IN THE FAMILY THIS TIME. COUNSELOR HUNTED THIS A.M. + BROUGHT IN A CUSCUS + 1 DORBSONIA WHICH WE FOUND IN A ROCK CREVICE. MY BOYS FELLED MORE TREES IN THE CLEARING TO OPEN IT UP FOR BAT SHOOTING. NO LUCK, HOWEVER, TONIGHT - JACKING FOR AN HOUR BUT NO SIGN OF LIFE EXCEPT NYCTINIE GOOD VIEW OF COAST JUST A FEW MINUTES OUT OF CAMP. NIKO BROUGHT IN A RED-BELLED SNAKE. HUNTER BROUGHT IN A 1/4% FT. SNAKE YESTER- DAY. WASHED THE SALT OFF KEN'S LOWLAND WALLABY + FLUM FARGEN- IC TREATED IT - IN GOOD SHAPE. SKINS ARE ALL DRYING WELL HERE. NIGHTS ARE DRY + JUST COOL ENOUGH FOR COMFORT. TOOK IN ANOTHER NOTCH IN MY BELT TODAY! 299 270 MON. OCT. 26 60 #2 CAMP. 105 TRAPS - NOT A NIBBLE. MADE UP MY 5 POGONOMYS, 1 DORBSONIA, + 1 PHALANGER. GETTING SHORT OF TRAPS. SUNNY MORNING BUT HIGH CLOUDS MOST OF P.M. WALKED DOWN TRAIL + CAME OUT ON GRASS SPUR. LOVELY VIEW OF COAST. SAW BOAT GOING SOUTH ALONG COAST. SPUR IS A SMALL ONE PARALLELING THE 2 MAIN RIDGES THAT FORM OUR PRECIPITOUS GORGE. VIRGIN FOREST EXCEPT AT EAST OR LOWER LADS OF RIDGES WHERE VILLAGERS HAVE BURNED + FELLED FOR GARDENS. PARROTS + COCKATOOS FLYING + SWOOPING IN THE GORGE. KEN HAD GOOD COLLECTING TODAY - INSECTS. ALMOST BAT- SHOOTING TIME - 5:45. AGAIN, A FEW SHOTS BUT NONE DOWN. A BAT THAT LOOKS LIKE THE LITTLE SHEATH-TAIL AT THE PERIA IS THE EARLIEST FLYER. JACKING ALONG THE RIDGE TRAIL EAST + BACK ALONG OUR SPRING FED STREAM - NOTHING. TO BED AT 9! 300 271 TUES. OCT. 27 65 #2 CAMP. UP AT 4:15 A.M. USED TACK LIGHT FOR SHORT TIME. SAW BAT WHICH I BELIEVE IS MACROGLOSSUS. FINE BIRD CHORUS IN VALLEY. BACK TO BED AT 5: NOTHING IN TRAPS, SO MY BOYS + I CUT TRACT DOWN INTO THE STREAM GORGE. STEEP BUT NO OBSTACLES. WE CAME OUT AT A LOVELY BIG SWIMMING HOLE OVERHANG WITH AN ORANGE SPRAYED DENPROBIUM. WE SPENT A SUNNY HOUR OR SO SCRAMBLING AROUND STREAM BED. COLLECTED A FEW PLANTS FOR KEN. WITH TRACT OPEN, WE WERE BACK IN CAMP IN 10 MINUTES. COLLECTED A HONEY-EATER IN A STILL FLOWERING TREE. PICKLED