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We are spending the night at an elevation of 6400 feet. We have filled 

 another box of insects today. Some of the insects look very interesting. 



This box No. 524 makes ten boxes filled with insects since leaving Suifu. 

 The flies look specially interesting, and I would not be surprised if, with good 

 luck, the fly collection this summer equalled that secured on the Songpan trip. 



^e killed four birds, but only one seems interesting or rare. This district 

 is not rich in birds along the river, near the main road. 



Anybody who loves good roads and cannot endure bad roads had better stay 

 aYiray from Mupin. The roads are so bad that horses cannot "navigate" them. This 

 is a rich district in specimens, but it is very hard ?/ork to get the specimens. 



We had a very hard time getting food today. The inns are -mere farmhouses, 

 and there is often no food that can be purchased. Anybody looking for a snap 

 job had better not come to ^Hapin on a collecting expedition. 



July 2. Labelled box 525, pinned flies. Killed 4 birds. 



fife are at the altitude of 64^0 feet. 



July 3. Last night it rained, and we got the best catch of moths yet this 



year. 



One of our soldiers got into a row with a civilian and gave him a bad cut 

 under the right eye. I dressed the wound and persuaded them to quit quarreling, 

 filled box No. 526, insects. 



The insects caught last night filled more than one box. These boxes are 

 larger than the ones I generally use. 



We secured t?/o snakes. We arrived at Yav Gi on July 3rd 



This afternoon I shot at a Mountain Goat at about 700 yards (I guess), and 

 apparently hit him, but did not secure him. He escaped into some underbush and 

 we could not find him. 



We had no dogs to help. 



July 4. The local official is friendly and helping us as much as may be 



expected.* 



Last night our netters caught night moths until daylight, catching more moths 

 than I have ever secured to date, during one night. We formerly found it difficult 

 to fill a box with insects in one day, and sometimes in several days. We are now 

 averaging more than a box a day. The boxes we have been using since leaving Yachow 

 are about twice as big as those formerly used. If our luck keeps up, we Ml get the 

 finest catch of insects ever caught in a summer expedition. 



