L-26, P.S. This afternoon my steel-trap boy Liza brought in a small Pseudocheirus which I so far fail to recognize. Its general color is brownish gray with faint dorsal stripes, a well defined narrow-frontal stripe colored blackish brown and around the base of the ears the same color. The boy found a large tree with a hole in it the size of an orange, rather high up. He went up & found the creature inside - for further data see tomorrow's notes. About 5 pm. a stationary trap brought in a ? Petaurus. This animal is probably P. papuensis papuensis. It was caught in the woods nearby. Wed. Jan. 27. Today 2 Rattus mordax and 2 R. praeter. The Pseudocheirus proved to have three well-formed young in the pouch. Also only three functional mammae, (the fourth being undeveloped (probably present but I could not find it). Moving across the estate to Sogeri tomorrow. Thur. Jan 28. Picked up traps; 4 R. mordax but did not keep them. Moved across to the Sogeri Rest Home with the help of six of Sobom's boys. Spent most of afternoon settling in. The rest home is a couple of hundred yards N of the river on a low ridge. Fri. Jan 29. We put out only a few traps yesterday. Caught 4: 1 R. praeter, 3 R. mordax. Had to go over to the estate storerooms in the morning; in the afternoon I plodded up 500 feet to a native valley on the ridge NW of us. Father was at home except two cats. All traps are now set (350 of them), so we ought to get a considerable catch tomorrow. Two species of bats were flying in the clearing last night, but I did not succeed in shooting one afternoon. Hope to get them though.