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have been formed by water clearing out the debris from
around enormous blocks of agglomerate which fill the
bottom of the ravine. I had expected snake bats & was
armed with a torch or . Instead they were four
big Dobsonia. Clinging to the rocks somewhat inside,
I revealed my shy, for they flew away before we
fully realized what was leaping. The noise of our descent
of a particularly steep, slipping place apparently startled
them. The altitude of the "cave" was 550 meters - how
my boy Arie knows the place I shall send him over the
ridge again to see whether he can surprise them.
Tomorrow I'm going out again - this time south, after
another "cave"
Inco the police by way here when I got back. He refused
that his messenger did not go through to Efopi. So I'm
going on with the rest of my plans & hope he may
have someone to carry when I come back for the
Kamp Welsh side.
The Korari who acted as guide knew - "Udu majoni" (= either Macropus frenzii n Dendrolagus) - the kangaroo,
Peroryctes broadbanti ("majoni modu"). But he did
not recognize my description of Daoryurus. So
apparently the thar does not fit down so low. He
remarked that the Peroryctis and Dendrolagus are
all killed off on this side. The former certainly is
not because we have recently had a young specimen
of it.
We had the last sticks on the job tonight again - one
more bat - It appears to be another species of
Pipistrellus but with rufous undeparts, and from
36. That of the other is 29. Note at Tarvie 31, 32.
Fri. Feb. 5. A very poor trap morning: 1 Peromyscus sp.
f, manner 1-2 = 6, tail up-curling at tip, taken at foot
of tree; 1 leptmys possibly elyana, taken in steel trap
upon which it apparently jumped, tail thick, no white
nose spot as in Jey. R. sfd. Eyes small, f ad.; 1 Melops
probably plethys (at any rate new to locality); 3 Rattus
marder. The last caught had mygerhas stri