Field journal : Archbold 1936 New Guinea Exp. February 27, 1936 to July 8, 1937
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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