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L. 28, p. 14
myself under a very large fallen log in front of the
ridge. The weather has been good for two days. But rain
seems to be on the way from the west. I hope it won't
bring the rivers down in flood, especially The Naro,
or at least that the business will be all over by Sunday (when we are due to cross
the Naro).
Fri., Mar. 12. Last night just at sundown a Daely Cony, strongly marked and probably D.I. friedermannii, and a maccry lobbie but were caught in. The former had been taken from a hole in a tree in forest at about 5000 feet; the latter, the first bat from this area, was found hiding in a bunch of withered leaves on a low bush or tree just below the village of Kogi and not below 2600 feet.
The catch was mostly ordinary, but a bandicoot of the former Echinomys gracilis, 3 mos. old, and 2 small pinnules were caught down by the river when a tree crashed it, altitude about 4000 feet. This the higher record of altitude I have as yet for the genus.
I'm not keeping the small Steatops today (our packing up day) as I have lots already, but if 8 adult ?'s found I found embryos (2) in one only.
Another trio of the cactus P. sericeus was brought this morning, 25, 17.
After thieving finished, busy packing.
There is now more two or three month's work in and around this place. I would like to see camps on the Takranmer ridge, in the bottom of the Efori river or one of its branches, on the flat at 6500 feet reached day one March 10th, and up in the pass which Peterson states is 7300 feet. 2-3 weeks in each of those stations could just about clean up this district.
4 pm. Two more species for the list: Pseudocheirus expensus and a dry-foiled variant Pterycho. The former from