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be seen plainly. Now the foliage is so thick that they can hide successfully when only a few rods away. Yang Fong Tsang and I have tried hard to secure a good catch of mammals, but so far success has been meagre. I have shot some very good birds, and have been unable to find them in the thick underbrush. Yang Fong Tsang has had the same experience.

Today, in company with a guide, I went through woods so dense that in some places we had to crawl on our hands and knees. We saw deer-tracks, black-bear tracks, and white bear tracks, but we did not get a shot at any animal. We are getting new varieties of birds, but it seems harder to get birds on this trip than it did on the Tatsienlu trip, and nearly as hard to get mammals as on the Ningyuenfu trip.

Last year our best contribution was probably in wasps and bees. This year our largest and best contribution will be in moths and butterflies. Already we have about 55 boxes mostly of moths and butterflies, and we secure about two boxes every day. If we can keep going at this rate during the two weeks at Mt. Omei and for two or three weeks in the section south of Suifu, we should collect over 100 boxes of dried insects this summer.

I got a very interesting frog today.

Our collection of snakes will be better than that of last summer, and the collections of beetles and flies should be excellent.

Today my shirt got so badly torn that I probably can not use it any more. I also cut big gashes on two of my fingers.

July 15. Labelled insect boxes 337-350.

Purchased two young wildcats. In the morning we went to the town of Yao Gi. We decided that we had better get to Gan[^]1[^] Yang [^]2[^] Ba [^]4[^] and see what we can do there.

We have already filled thirty-two boxes of insects, more, I think, than ever before in one summer's expedition. Last year it seemed to me that our best contribution was in wasps and bees. This year I think it will be in moths and butterflies. If I had more time here, I could secure some good mammals.

Chen Gih Uen trapped a small mammal. I purchased a white bear skin, and the two young wildcats, mammals 266-269.

For the last two nights we were unable to wrap the moths for lack of paper. Today I bought the commonest and cheapest Chinese paper I could get. It took five of us about two hours to wrap all we collected on those two nights.

July 16. Labelled box No. 351, insects. Purchased mammals 270, a water rat (I am told), and another white bear skin. I have purchased three white bear skins, prices $6.00, $3.50, and $3.30, total $12.80. The Roosevelts offered $50.00 for one