L.27. P.16. the fact that they are entering their last month of work, after which I shall go away & they will be returned to their village & paid off. I added that I believed that each one of them could easily double his normal output. We shall see. For house (five) ranging from a total of 60 cents (American) to $1.10 we have now spent 195 specimens covering 27 species, which includes one new species, Pone (at least) new record for Papisa and the rediscovery of Septomyr elegans. The Pharegal when opened looked as if it had its reproductive system arranged as follows: The interior uterine horns very short; large swellings below each horn, perhaps corresponding to the two pouches which were still too close to go wide in enlargements; no median anterior sac as in Petromys. Compare with uterine arrangement of Pharegal and of Deinomylt. Old silver rat (Crocus) came by & detailed at great length the honors of the road (advocated by Kevin J Tavareri) between T. and Egozi. And let us the village policeman called up from Moska to see if he could do anything for us. I told him to get us a tree kangaroo. Thur. Feb.18. Stormy weather with stray birds from 11 o'clock last night on. In traps: 1 Chromys, 3 Melmys new (?), and Hydromys (which I had not even put on my list for the Astrolak Highlands). The latter taken with a steel trap alongside a little creek in the forest. This morning took the first bats in this camp - Hipposiderus with the pointed ears. Gross & Karamnia had found a large tree with a hole in it about 20 feet from the ground, a long stick had been poked into it & two bats came out and (actually) flew away. Gross was orderly for today; so I think K,