Monday Aug 24 No particular news. The traps L-23 P-5 yielded a Uromy and a Rattus brockyrhenius f Tried a new bait on half the line yesterday nice with a little honey mixed with it but caught moth on the half of the trap line in which it was tried out. Went back to old style of bait make a bat switten by splitting out the one end of a bamboo tying it out flat. I sat in 4 or 5 seats at once at dusk but did not hit him. Out 'jacking' but didn't see an eye Heard somethin onece but couldn't see it Plenty of spider's eyes and saw a couple of sphinx mothos flyin their eyes givng ruby red. Far out in the lake there was a great splash whist for a few moments either a large fish or a small alligator. About 6 o'clock Healy & I were sitting on the little wharf where we tie up with dimply of course watching the color of the sunsets in the water. Suddenly a large drop of water almost a teaspoonful shot out feet into the air & fell back. This was repeated gas a dozen times just as though a sharp jet from a water pistol had been released. It was done by the rifle fish a small fish which few can don't small insects by ejecting drops of water at them from its mouth as we described. Besides the creatures mentioned earlier we have three baby cassowaries here little chicken like birds with longitudinal stripes down their backs and practically no wings. They run after everybody when they think they have a little food for them & are liable to eat leaves or cotton wool or almost anything. Tues Aug 25 Two different colored Uromys and a R drochyrhenius The queens of green ants have been swarming today. Collected a few. This afternoon the lake's burned off the pass of an island near by probably to drive out landbirds & rats. In fact I did capture a far single specimen to be brought in later in the day. Also Widew one of Rand's boys got me a fine large male