12 * 
tell* at mouths of two rivers just below Sant lego the day 
we went up* Two seen s epar ate ly lower down as we descended* 
Perhaps the same pair* Both were shot at and one badly wounded, 
but no specimen taken* The only ones I have seen. 
8« Green Heron (Butorides ) Exceedingly plentiful; everywhere all 
the time* Young half grown skylarking about driftage. 
9, White Heron, Black bill and feet but yellow toes. Abundant all 
along the river. Almost always singly but as many as 3 once seen 
together* One seen setting between 2 Carabao-Birds. 
10. Carabao-Bird* Abundant* (No Great Blue Herons! ) 
11* Tr ingoides. Very numerous. 
12, Numenius tricolor# Common# 
13« Great Tattler (Totarms) In flocks, pairs and singly# Legs and feet 
greenish olive. Size of Willet* One shot by Capt. McCoy. Not 
skinned. 
14* Little Curlew. (Numenius) in small numbers# 
15 * Red# shank s»- - Abundant # 
16* Small Sandpipers, several species ir, prodigious flocks, 
II* Large Ring-necked Plovers, abundant singly and in flocks. 
18. Small Ring-necked Plover, very sharply-black ringed. Scarce. 
19# Purple Gallinule, thickpbilled. On river and lake. 2 shot# 
20* Waterhen (Gallinula) Very abundant. 
Aoril 26, 1904* 
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Arrived at Baganga at 9.00 A. M. on the Ranger* Low tide. Many 
culew on the reefs# Busy all morning packing for hike over the moun- 
tains to Compos te 11a on the Agusan River. After lunchein we went ashore 
and got the cargadores together# One the sand beaches were many small 
sandpipers, Turnstones, Stone-colored Sandpipers, Large and Small Ring 
Plovers, etc. A few Titlarks. At the house of Lieut, Talby I saw 
skins of the Geloopittiecus or feig Flying Squirrel and of a plain-colored 
Civet, plain reddish brown, somewhat paler below— something like a coon. 
One huge Pigeon* Carpophaga aeneus, shot at the river crossing 
(Bagange River) while waiting for return of basoia, collected land shells 
inhabited by Hermit Crabs# Marched seven miles to h emp plantation of 
an American-German named Christian Ade# He has 30,000 hemp plants* R&tt 
ate up 1,000 bushels of his upland rice, only leaving his seed. Ade has 
lived here 2 years. On arrival no natives of Baganga , Viscayans, etc., 
would work for him owing to their fear of Mandayan attack, the nearest 
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