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kind I have collected. The head and bill look thus: ^ - 

 The other may or may not be an ordinary mallard. 



Dr. Crawford, a Canadian member of the West China Border Research Society, 

 is in ^uifu, on his way to Kiating. H e is taking my boxes to Kiating. Y$ 

 and Yang will go along on shore. This will insure safety to the gun -and to 

 the ammunition. 



Oct. 24. The netter Lai is using the gasolene lantern every night 

 now, for the moon is rising somewhere near midnight. B e f 0 re the moon rises, 

 the moths come to the lantern. His catch is smaller than in warmer weather 

 but I am continuing with the hooe of securing varieties that appear in October 

 or in November. 



The coming of so many explorers into West China is making it more difficult 

 for me to collect economically. A n explorer who passed through not long ago 

 pays his native collectors #45.00 Mexican a month and expenses. I am paying 

 my two best collectors #6.00 Mexican or #5.00 gold and expenses. My collectors 

 do better work I think. One explorer paid #1.00 Mexican for three oranges, 

 while the Chinese get fifty or sixty for one dollar. 



Dr. Crawford gets away Saturday morning instead of tomorrow, Friday 

 morning. 



Oct. 25. Purchased some fish. Filled box no. 449. snakes. 

 Finished packing for the trip of Yang Fong Tsang and Ho to Mt. Omei. 

 Also packed for a ten-day trip of my own up the Min River and back. The 

 netter Lai got a good catch of moths last night. 



Oct. 26. Last night there was a very heavy rain. Today the small 

 streams were all swollen and the weather was quite cool. There were prac- 

 tically no insects. I got one tiny bird. We had to wade across a swollen 



