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kind I have collected. The head and bill look thus: [[image - pencil drawing of duck neck, head, and bill]]
The other may or may not be an ordinary mallard.

Dr. Crawford, a Canadian member of the West China Border Research Society, is in Suifu, on his way to Kiating. He is taking my boxes to Kiating. H[[strikethrough]]e[[/strikethrough]]^[[o]] and Yang will go along on shore. This will insure safety to the gun and to the ammunition.

Oct. 24. The netter Lai is using the gasol[[strikethrough]]i[[/strikethrough]]^[[e]]ne lantern every night now, for the moon is rising somewhere near midnight. Before the moon rises, the moths come to the lantern. His catch is smaller than in warmer weather but I am continuing with the hope of securing varieties that appear in October or in November.

The coming of so many explorers into West China is making it more difficult for me to collect economically. An explorer who passed through not long ago pays his native collectors $45.00 Mexican a month and expenses. I am paying my two best collectors $6.00 Mexican or $3.00 gold and expenses. My collectors do better work I think. One explorer paid $1.00 Mexican for three oranges, while the Chinese get fifty or sixty for one dollar. 

Dr. Crawford gets away Saturday morning instead of tomorrow, Friday morning.

Oct. 25. Purchased some fish. [[underline]]Filled box no. 449, snakes.[[/underline]] Finished packing for the trip of Yang Fong Tsang and Ho to Mt. Omei. Also packed for a ten-day trip of my own up the Min River and back. The netter Lai got a good catch of moths last night.

Oct. 26. Last night there was a very heavy rain. Today the small streams were all swollen and the weather was quite cool. There were practically no insects. I got one tiny bird. We had to wade across a swollen