L. 17. P. 3. a note from Willis in which he stated that he had paid off some carriers & given them a bag of rice & would we give them a kerosene tin to cook it in. Also that Healy was ahead in pretty rough country. Healy must be somewhere between Surprise Creek and the Black River. went out Jacking. Saw two bats with sleepy luminous eyes - Dobsonia or Nyctomere. The sky had quietly risen from the previous two days of rain and had soaked up the first creeks so that the water was six inches below the land rail. We went down to the bank of the main river and tied down the collapsible boat and ran back ropes through the handles of all the ferrule drums (which may possibly float). Thursday, May 21. Late yesterday afternoon a very interesting bat was brought in - a tule-nosed bat apparently of the genus Nyctomere. The wings along the forearm are [illegible] mottled with yellow giving the appearance of the otherwise gray skin having been gnawed by roaches. The gray back is broadly striped with a longitudinal mark of blockish brown. But most interesting to me (I've never noticed it before) is the well developed claw on the second digit of the wing in addition to the usual one on the thumb. This is a wretchedly difficult place in which to get mammals. In ten trips out by me yesterday