W. end of the ridge. Oaks growing along the ridge while I reckon as about 2000 feet. the Maguire region looks like a patchwork of forest & green country, the forest mainly in the valleys. Saw one of the plantations destroyed with an axe, which he had hewed out in the grass. Others badly cut up. He tried a new stunt: four boys armed with light, thrashed sticks walked along the track ahead of me waiting for bats to fly through the team. Several did but not one was hit. Then we tried a stationary team with the boys lined up alongside it. Only one bat came - & it left unharmed. A further exasperating thing: The tree-tops were full of large bats (we could hear the beat of their wings), but I couldn't get even a gleam of an eye in the light. Light rain began at 9 pm. Then. Feb. 4. A poor bit from the trap, even though adding a species to the collection: Melanops derivatives journal, The new- one (in this locality) Echinoptera (jun.) Started out with a hobarse to look for a bat cave up the hill east of us. Worked up onto rain divide between Laloki & Goldie mine system. Plenty of big trees & plenty of holes for trapping at 650 meters track leaves the crest of the ridge and dips down into the ravine where bats live. First continued to top of hill which forms one side of the pass over to Kamp Walch (the hill I climbed from Stiki forms the other side). The summit was reached at 820 meters (2650 feet). Does mean the top a bit smaller but still drove enough to cut off the view only scraps of summits could be seen. Some big rocks near the top of the preceding agglomeration. Returned to 650 form, part then stepped down into the main ravine of the Goldie. The bat "caves"