23. 
& fine dish. We else opened a can of plum pudding which I did not 
oare about* Birds: One white-tailed Eagle* flock of Brown Java Sparrows* 
Many white-headed Kingfishers, many fringoides, one solitary Tattler, 
many Red-billed Progaouths, many Crows and Chats and Paraquets. We are 
three hours from Composteila, This stream is the Baoooa, with a small 
tributary, the Tingall* 
The Mandayas have ohopped trees here up to 6 ft. in diameter with 
small axes whioh they make for themselves. The trees are ohopped very 
evenly, leaving the top of the stump flat and smooth, as a rule* In the 
house we slept in were spears, shields, knives of various kind?, mats, 
rattan grass, and hemp-leaf retainers in great variety, a quart bottle 
(glass), a fireplace, spinning looms, beadwork, a drum, a bird-trap with 
net and nooses, fowls roosting, hats with rooster tails and beetlejaw- 
ornanents. Only one Xtian in this village has his hair out* He also 
lets his beard (quite a feature) grow* 
May 5, 1918. 
Hornbills, big Pigeons, and Rainerows are calling* We leave our 
ftiendly Mandayan village at the junotion of the rivers Baoooa and 
Tingall* Taking an early start, with a good praotioo to show us the 
trail, we marohed rapidly through to Composteila on the Aguean River. 
Comparatively little of the way was through the river, the trail being 
mostly through forest* Trail only fair* Large land shells were abundant 
but no live ones seen* Mr. Gerhart shot into a flook of 100 Cockatoos and 
killed 2. Hornbills, large Pigeons, green Pigeons, Rainerows, Motacillatf 
flook of naked-headed Starlings (at Composteila), white-headed Chat, White 
headed Hawk, White-headed Kingfisher, black Cuokoos sise of Pigeon, Red¬ 
billed Roller Goatsucker, Tringoides, White-bellied Eagle, Shrieking-bird, 
