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[[underlined]] Houma 

May 4 [[/underlined]] Came from Terra Bonne out to Houma - 20 miles. Failed to find any places out in the country to stay. so took our traps and set in the woods a mile or so from town and stay at the hotel till we find a place.
I killed a Lepus aquaticus & a Bat.
Thompson killed a Megascops.

[[underlined]] May 5 [[/underlined]] Went to traps but did not catch any thing save a lizzard. Saw one Gray Squirrel but failed to get it. Thompson had no better luck. Found a boarding place just at edge of town, moved and settled in very good quarters.
Got a boat and ran through a canal across the swamp and out on a big marsh.
Saw some birds that appeared to be Gallanules
Found one Musk Rat hous & set traps at it.

[[underlined]] May 6 [[/underlined]] Caught 3 Sitomys but ants had spoiled 2 of them. Shot some birds. Took up traps and set them out in woods & field south of town. Found Neoloma houses & Sigmodon runways.