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- DIARY NO. 6 

 D. C. Graham 



From February 15, 1 9S£ to 

 June IS, ±$?3 



Mammals up to date include Mammal No. 186 . Boxes include box No. 2S4. 



Feb* 15. Last night I took care of bird specimens. Today I went on a long 

 hunt up a canyon northwest of here and secured 25 birds . The village of Tai Ping ^ 

 Tsang^ls in the canyon where we collected. ^ There was most beautiful scenery, high 

 mountains in front, and on both sides, rapids, forests, green hillsides, etc. 



Feb. 16. In the morning I went for a three-hour hunt, securing seven birds. 

 I saw a large eagle, but did not get a shot at him. I also saw a flock of bamboo 

 partridges. I expect to leave Tuesday a.m. and shoot as 1 go down the river to 

 Kiating. This evening I prepared the skeletons of 26 birds. 



Feb. 17. I skinned four birds and cleaned two bird skeletons. We are drying 

 bird skeletons in the oven so the meat on them will not decay and stink. % 

 regular bird skinner is not along with me. Since leaving Suifu I have taken care 

 of nearly a hundred birds. I have saved nearly twenty dollars Mexican because the 

 skinner was not along and I have done the work myself, but it slightly limits the 

 amount of specimens that I can collect and take care of. 



Feb. 18. Today I made 12 anthropometrical measurements. Then I went hunting 

 and secured ten birds, some of which seem rare and interesting. One red bird 

 looks like some that I secured near Tatsienlu. 



Feb. 19. Today I cared for five bird specimens, and took anthropometrical 

 measurements of one Chinese. I also visited two Chinese temples, noting the gods, 

 etc. I spend some time x>ackin,fr for the trip down the river to Kiating. 1 expect 

 to leave on a raft tomorrow morning. 



Feb. 20. lent by raft to Lo Ba. Shot a number of ducks and a kingfisher. 

 One male f ishduck seems to be important as a specimen. I am sure that I secured a 

 specimen a few years ago, preserving the skin, so I am preserving the skeleton of 

 this one. I have killed a number of fishducks hoping to get the rarer kind, 

 mergamus squatamus. 



Feb. 21. Today I killed one of the eagles. I killed it just above Hong la. 

 Since I previously sent in two skins, I am sending in the skeleton of this bird. 

 Otherwise today 1 s catch has been disappointing. It was a bright, sunshiny day, and 

 that may be a reason why good specimens could not easily be secured. I saw a second 

 eagle of the same kind below Hong la, but 1 could not get near it. It was on an 

 island where the raft could not get near it. There are many fierce-looking stones 

 and wild rapids in this river between lachow and Slating. Ordinary boats could not 

 navigate this stream in some cases, but the rafts made of large bamboos do it quite 

 successfully. 



Feb. 22. This morning there was & full moon and a clear sky after midnight, 

 so the boatmen started travelling down the river about two-thirty a.m. It became 



