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be seen plainly. How the foliage is so thick that they can hide successfully 

 when only a few rods away. Yang Fohg ^sang and I have tried hard to secure a 

 good catch of mammals , but so far success has been meagre. I have shot some veiy 

 ?ood birds, and have been unable to find them in the thick underbrush. Tang 

 Fong Tsang has had the same experience. 



'Today, in company with a guide, I went through woods so dense that in some 

 places we had to crawl on our hands and knees. We saw deer-tracks, black-bear 

 tracks, and white bear tracks , but we did not get a shot at any animal. We are 

 getting new varieties of birds, but it seems harder to get birds on this trio than 

 it did on the Tatsienlu trip, and nearly as hard to get mammals as on the Ning- 

 yuenfu trip. 



Last year our best contribution was probably in wasps and bees. This year 

 our largest and best contribution will be in moths and butterflies. Already we 

 have about 55 boxes mostly of moths and butterflies, and we secure about two 

 boxes every day. If we can keep going at this rate during the two weeks at Mt. 

 Omei and for two or three weeks in the section south of Suifu, we should collect 

 over 100 boxes of dried insects this summer. 



I got a very interesting frog today. 



Our collection of snakes will be better than that of last summer, and the 

 collections of beetles and flies should be excellent. 



Today my shirt got so badly torn that I probably can not use it any more. I 

 also cut big gashes on two of my fingers. 



July 15. Labelled insect boxes no. 537-550. 



Purchased two youhg wildcats , In the morning we went to the town of Yao Gi. 

 We decided that we had better get to Gan Yang' Ba^and see what we can do there. 



We have already filled thirty- two boxes of insects, more, I think, than ever 

 before in one summer 1 s expedition. Last year it seemed to me that our best con- 

 tribution was in wasps and bees. This year 1 think it will be in moths and butter- 

 flies. If I had more time here, I could secure some good mammals. 



Chen Gih Uen trapped a small mammal. I purchased a white bear skin, and the 

 two young wildcats, mammals 266-269. 



For the last two nights we were unable to wrap the moths for lack of pa 

 Today I bought the commonest and cheapest Chinese paper I could get. It took five 

 of us about two hours to wrao all we collected on those two nights. 



July 16. Labelled box No. 551, insects. Purchased mammals 270, a water rat 

 (I am told), and another white bear skin. I have purchased three white bear skins, 

 prices $6.00, $5.50, and -Jo. 50, total S1E.30. The Roosevelt s offered $50.00 for one 



