200 THE ODYSSEY OF AN ANIMAL COLLECTOR 
indeed slight, but in the case of the galago they are nil, for it 
usually chooses a hole in a tree to retire to during daylight. To 
locate such rare animals in a vast forest one must resort to other 
means. 
My experience here was somewhat similar to the one I had in 
Portuguese East Africa where I located Garnett’s Galagos by 
observing the feeding places of Trumpeter Hornbills. Here in the 
Gold Coast forest I had noted the croaking call of the touracos— 
an unmistakable sound which carries a long distance—coming 
from the same direction every morning. Wondering if there was 
some fruit-bearing tree that was the attraction, I set out to find the 
spot. This took two mornings, as on the first occasion I got about 
half-way there when calling ceased. I knew that it would be too 
dificult to find one tree hemmed in by a sea of others—all looking 
more or less the same—without some further guide. On the sec- 
ond morning I took my post at the half-way mark, and was able 
to get a new bearing by renewed croaking on the part of the 
touracos. When I got near, the common bulbuls could be heard 
in numbers, so I knew that I was approaching one of the forest 
trees that bear an enormous quantity of small fruits—attractive 
alike to mammals and birds, and the center of great activity while 
the fruit lasts. 
It was, in fact, a tree laden with large bunches of fruit resem- 
bling damsons. The usual run of forest fruit is dry, tough and 
insipid, but here was something really fleshy and juicy. My guess 
was that if there were any Demidoff’s Galagos in the vicinity they 
would certainly visit this tree. 
To climb it with a cage-trap was the next problem, but being 
fairly fertile with “Heath Robinson” ideas I solved the problem 
without difficulty. The trap, of course, had to be set as it was 
getting dark, otherwise the bulbuls would have got caught, so 
arriving on the spot about half an hour before sunset I arranged 
an attractive display of ripe bananas and pawpaw—the latter sliced 
to expose the luscious flesh—in my trap. The next essential was a 
ball of string. This commodity was fixed to each corner of the 
cage-trap, the four pieces being tied together so that the cage 
could be lifted without tilting. To the joining place of the four 
corner strings I fixed one end of the ball of string. The ball itself 
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