O. Straney 1976 18. 19 Aug. Went this afternoon to try to net bats along the Forked Deer River 70 miles NE of Memphis. This is good territory for australis according to Mike Kennedy. At the 1st place where the road crossed the S fork we got out and spent 1 1/2 hrs looking for a good place to stretch some nets. The best place according to Mike is in fairly dense woods which we weren't able to find. The river is ~60' wide here and swift so a bad place for us to set without a boat. A small inflatable one would be handy to have. Did get a small Rufus here tho. Went off at ~ 7 pm to check out another place W of Belle where the road crosses again, but a short ways down the road the left rear tire blew out and had to be changed. Cursing the loss of time and watching the sun go down, we got back in and the battery was dead. Hitchhiked to a gas station and got someone to come out and start the car. By then it was 9:15 pm and, in exasperation,