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camp made by noon. I had to turn in and from then until this noon, 29th, I have been unable to eat or move about.

March 30, 1914.
Sungai Merah.

Last night I hardly slept at all and had a bad headache but to-day felt better and this afternoon put out seventy-five more rat traps.

March 31, 1914.
Sungai Merah.

This morning I shot a pigeon (No.1290), like a punai in form but with a red head, white belly, pink breast and black fore throat. It is the first of its kind I have seen and the Dyak boy here with me says he has never seen this species. It was feeding on a small yellow fruit in the top of a tall tree.

To-day we cut brush and saplings, making a fence of them about five hundred yards long, through fine heavy forest, every ten or twelve yards making an opening in the fence, and put a trap. We have now set exactly 200 traps.

April 1, 1914.
Sungai Merah.

With Djenau, hunt from early in the morning until late in the afternoon. The country here is all hilly and heavily forested but game is very scarce. After dark, hunt with the reflector lamp but see nothing.

April 2, 1914.
Sungai Merah.

Rain during the forenoon.

Shoot two small squirrels, possible "Sciurus parvus", Nos.1426

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