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about two hours came upon some white bellied Pygathrix monkeys and got four; as I was alone, I skinned out their bodies where they fell and thus could hang all four from my waist. The middle part of the day I spent preparing specimens and hunted to the north of the inlet late in the afternoon, but got only a vittatus squirrel and a small bird.

Saturday, June 26, 1913.
  Labuan Klambu.

      At daybreak I went to the north side of the inlet and within a short time got several small birds that came to feed on the white flowers of a tree at the water's edge (a rough barked scraggy tree with small leaves.) Later I followed the path of the oil prospectors, hunting right and left and got more birds, including a pair of large woodpeckers, larger than the American pileated, a trogan and a drongo, also a Tupaio and a Sciurus stricapilus. After getting inland from two hundred to two hundred and fifty yards, the forest is fine and large and the ground typical of a limestone cavern country, no valleys nor ridges, but everywhere hollows and hummocks; the hummocks are generally rocky on top. In many of the hollows are holes through which the surface water passes to a subterannean stream.

Sunday, June 29, 1913.
  Labuan Klambu.

      Having seen so many small birds far inland yesterday, I decided to return, but before going inland I hunted near where my traps were and got four squirrels and a couple of birds, took these back to the boat and then hunted inland, at first following the path of the oil prospectors but later leaving it to follow up
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