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white Kingfisher. Plenty of Frogs. One wood species a tremendous 
jumper. All-green frogs on the oreek and various spotted ones. A 
lizard 18 inohes long, has habit of shaking its head, on oreek bank. 
Deer and hog-traoks numerous. This must be a tributary of the Agusan 
as its course for several miles has been northwest, mostly west. Am 
hunting ahead of the party, but animal life is very scaroe. Boon we 
reaohed a more level part of the creek-bed, then level stretohes of 
heavy oogon grass. At length the water slaokened and deepened, then 
we waded up to our armpits and left the water Then we tfould find footing. 
Here birds beoarae more abundant. Tringoidos, White-headed Kingfishers, 
shot black and brown Hornbills, Rifle-bird, Paraquet, Butorides, Wagtail, 
brown Pigeon, Big Pigeon (£. aeneus). White-headed Chats were seen for ths 
first time since entering the mountains. One brown Hawk size of Broadwing, 
Red-billed Roller, Goatsuokerj flushed her® of hogs or deer in oogon grass 
beside stream, flook of Brown Ricebirds. 
We were about to go into camp during a rainstorm in a deep forest 
beside this river which had become broad and too deep to wade as we had 
been doing up to 4 o'olook, when Lt. Quaokinbush waded out in the stream 
to take an observation and saw a native shack built on the stem of a huge 
fereo. The Mandayan guide and Lt» Zapanta were sent ahead and were re¬ 
ceived and welcomed by very friendly and hospitable natives who announced 
that they were Christians. They had 4 houses built 20 feet up from the 
ground on poles and tree tranks, and vacatedone house for our use. All 
my bedding and olothing, etc., was soaking wet but Jim, my Moro, dried 
rauoh of the stuff before a fire in the high oasa, where we are most com¬ 
fortable, having dined on rioe, green oorn, sweet potatoes and coffee. 
We oookod rioe and a big brown hornbill in a pot together. They made 
