L.25, P. 4 with us) who has been trying to round up carriers for us, came in to camp yesterday afternoon with half a dozen people, two men and four boys. It's a beginning, but we will need many more before we can move anywhere. Two of them speak Motuan and one has been to Daru. Took two boys and completed a trap trail started the other day. At a q quarter of a mile out along the WSW trail my line diverges and enters the scrub on the south side. It gradually works around to the E, and after crossing patches of savanna and partly burnt forest it strikes the SW river about half a mile down up from the camp. Our track then comes in along the river bank. Found some of the nicest forest I have yet seen in this station. Plenty of good trapping places. Aia is ok again; Kanamoia still sick. Touch of laringitis, I think. Wed, Dec. 9. The catch fell off a bit today; perhaps parts of the line need changing. Gororo brought in four, ATA and Kanamoia one each. Catch 1 Phascogale, 4 ringens, and one juv. brachyrhinus. Got abat out of a tree along the SW river by sulphur smoke. This p.m. locals brought in a Petaurus and an Isoodon. Brass's boy got a savanna wallaby from across the river to the SE. The Petaurus shows a very distinct gular gland in spite of its slight immaturity. Last night the locals who are staying with us (ten of them now) put on a dance. It was virtually identical to the Daviumbu performance except that the chants were different and there was no attempt at dressing up for the occasion. They sing the same refrain over and over, lightly beating time with one of their arrows on the bow-string (rattan). The knees are lightly bent and straightened also to the time of the dance, and every half minute or so they all shuffle a few paces from where they were just dancing before. One of them came out with me hunting for holes in trees this afternoon. We were trying to locate the hiding places of bats, rats and flying halangers. Actually we found no trace of anything. Thur. Dec. 10. Three ringens, 1 Petaurus and 1 brachyrhinus in traps. Having a bit section of the line changed. None in breeding condition. Went with local boy and say where the little Petaurus of yesterday was found. In a savanna tree (Tristania; Myrtaceae) at least 150 yards from rain forest. It was driven out of a knot hole about twenty feet up, and when the boy started up after it, it volplaned to the ground where it was caught. Went on a short way with two boys across the waterhole stream at its junction with the larger and across that one, onto an extensive NS stretch of savanna datted with rather small trees and having a swampy herbaceous cover among which are Eriocaulon and a sedge. Through this savanna a track runs north to Bebedebn and several other villages. The female Petaurus was brought in a short time ago. The pouch opens forwards, and there is no gular gland. Saw a local boy cutting up wallaby meat with a bamboo knife. The knife cut just as cleanly as any of our steel ones. In p.m. a baby Petaurus, eyes just beginning to open; tail hairs still closely appressed. A carpet snake eight or nine feet long was brought in. It contained a young wallaby probably M. agilis, possibly M. oriomo, but not Dorcopias Fri. Dec. 11. One Phascogale, 2 brachyrhinus, and four ringens in traps. one of the brachyrhinus juvenile, one ringens half grown Last night a Pipistrellus knocked down with a stick; two Isoodon brought in by local lads.