NO. 17 



SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I916 



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Ayermadidi, Minahassa, Celebes, May 9, 1916. 

 I am sorry to have to say that since Likoepang I have been able to do only 

 a few days' work. Shortly after leaving Likoepang I had a little fever, but 

 thought it was about over. So I liired a native house here and tried to do a 

 little collecting and to get rid of my fever. After a week or so the fever dis- 

 appeared and I went up on Goenoeng Kalabal and made camp at an altitude of 

 about 5,600 feet. We were in the clouds almost continuously and there was 

 also a great deal of rain. Animal life of all kinds was scarce, though what 



Fig. 2i-- — An old man of Temboan. There are very 

 few natives in Minahassa at the present time who dress 

 in this manner. 



little I did get may prove interesting. I saw tracks of two or three Anoa 

 [dwarf buffalo] on the very summit and in the crater; also tracks of a pig, but 

 nothing else large. I changed my traps every night so that I trapped all the way 

 from about 5,000 feet to the summit, but got only a few rats. There are five 

 species, I think, and one or two of them seem to vary somewhat from the ones 

 from Likoepang of the same species. I got ten or eleven species of birds, 

 eight of which are new to my collection, and I think not found in the low lands. 



