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and sMn them later, for after drying out niy clotiiiaig and "bedding I find myself 

 almost too sleepy to keep awake. We were up at daylight this morning, i am 

 walking all the way as usual. 



Jan. 24. We travelled 70 11 to Hong Ya. Killed eight birds at nine shots. 



Cleaned the skeletons of seven but left the eighth to be skinned later. Met 

 the official to secure an escort. He later called on us at the chaple. We 

 did not Mve breakfast until eleven o'clock* Ihere ms snow on the mountains 

 just a few hundred feet above us, and snow fell at Hong Ya today. Secured two 

 frogs and some insects under rocks, also a dark fish like a bass. 



Jan. 25. Travelled fifty li from Hong Ya to Lo Ba. Crossed the river twice. 



Killed a large white crane. !Dhe local officials and headmen called. We will 

 have twenty soldiers with rifles all the way to Yachow. 



I expected this white crane to be a female, but it seemed very pjainly 

 to be a male, although I couid find only two feathers that were highly decorated. 

 There may have been more, but I did not find them. 



Jan. 26. Reached Yachow about dark. Killed four birds, one a large female white 

 crane, and one a large gray crane. I have secured 49 birds between Suifu and 

 Yachow. Two are probably and one certainly a new species as far as my col- 

 lecting is concerned. The netter Chen has evidently not been doing very good 

 work, but I have not seen him yet. 



Jan. 27. Skinned three birds, secured on Jan. 23rd. I am learning much about the 

 territory about Moupin from Dr. Crook and others who have been there. 



Chen Gih Uin, the collector, came today. He is to bring in his catch 

 tomorrow and talk over accounts. 



Jan. 28. Today I reckoned accoimts with the collector Chen Gih Uen, who has some 

 small mammals and insects, then in the afternoon went out 15 li on the road 

 to Chengtu to see a memorial arch erected in the Han Dynasty, about two 

 thousand years ago. The inscription definitely fixes it in the Han Dynasty. 

 There are several chariots carved on it, and the designs go far to help prove 

 that the cave-tombs of Szechuan are Chinese burial tombs of about the Han 

 Dynasty period. 



The netter Chen has to take a four-day leave, and I am tied down for a 

 few days in the Chinese and foreign conferences that are being held, but 

 after the conferences are over I expect to collect for awhile in this 

 vicinity. 



Jan. 29. The radical or communistic students are putting up nasty ant i -Christian 

 placards in Yachow, calling Chinese Christians foreign slaves, the walking 

 dogs of foreign devils, etc. (or the pet dogs of foreign devils) . 



Feb. 3. I have been very busy with conference duties, but have secured a few fish 

 and have visited some Han Dynasty caves. People who have lived in Yachow 



