Hesse, H. 1997 June 9 back in! We photographed and videotaped (continued) leech partially emerging and retreating the vent, and presumed must be in gut. After frog died during handling I opened the ventral skin and then the ventral peritoneum confirming that the leech is in the coelomic cavity and pushing it w/ forceps as it retreats behind organs. After lunch trouble napping because so muggy and I am sweating on the pillow. At 1720 hr, looking out room balcony and musing, the sky is largely cloudy, cicadas starting their loud buzzing, a big blue and black butterfly cruises over the foliage below. There are many beetles in Tam Dao (Nikolai says 1500 species of cerambycids), and lots of lepidoptera, spiders (including a totally black woolish tarantula Mash got out of a burrow in a rodent), hornets, flies, grasshoppers, crickets, leafydid, and ants - but, the guide book not withstanding, very damn few birds. In fact, the first birds I've actually seen were last night - four tiny songbirds w/ a downy look (mainly white from below, striped heads),