L. 26. P. 6. Sat. Jan. 20. Last night we were all set for the cats: four dogs each armed with traveling sticks to try to knock them down, and I with the short gun. Only me was taken + unfortunately I blew it practically to fragments. I could recognize it as Pipistrellus someren. Trap yield, 15, but lacking variety: one more totype of Melmys leipes, (the rest Rattus mindex + B. proctori. A steel trap yielded one for only of Chiromyops [illegible], one of the rare arboreal species that I want especially. One of my Ferguson Island trips gives me the following notes on Ferguson Isl. mammals (to be taken with a little salt of course): - Present Absent bandicoot sp. Phascogale gray cuscus Dendrolagus Dactylopsila Phal. maculatus Peters Mac. hemii, ("tree bandicoot") Dorcopsis Macropus ogilbi Zaglossus Rattus Melmys "big rat" Chiromyops Hydromys "? Pirakidra" (from a Ferguson mountain boy) went over to see Johnston after lunch. He is another of the same estate overseers. He presented a natural skin of Dactylopsila. At 4. so one of the locals (Korani) from the Valley of Urimanu (which I visited yesterday) brought in one of the dare tree rats (Pogonomys lepidus) which I am so anxious to obtain. The specimen is a female