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30. Lai secured enough moths to fill another box. I spent some time copying anthropometrical measurements. 

Two Chuan Mia[[strikethrough]]r[[/strikethrough]]^[[o]] aborigines came in. I took their anthropometrical measurements, making a total to date of 26 men. 

Oct. 31. I walked to Beh Sou Chi,(40 li.) killing six birds. One is a sparrow with a blue spot on the throat. 

[[underline]]Filled and labelled box no. 450, dried insects.[[/underline]] 

Nov. 1. Last night I was up until two o'clock.A.M. packing and skinning the six birds killed yesterday. I was kept busy from 6 to 11 o'clock at a foreign halloween party. 

This morning I got the baggage off to the boat early. The cook was late in getting breakfast. The boat travelled rapidly. We had to walk 30 li before taking it. I got only one bird today. Lai is out with the lantern tonight after moths. There is no [[strikethrough]]more[[/strikethrough]] ^[[moon]] now, but it is getting cold for moths. We will keep working with the hope that late moths may be different from those that appear earlier. 

I hope to get all my specimens off by Nov. 14, when my second year of collecting since furlough will be over. I mailed box no. 450 today. 

I saw two birds with very long, curved bills feeding near the river bank, but did not get a shot at them. They remotely resembled this: [[image - pencil drawing of bird with long curved bill]]
(A light brown color, I think.) They are migrating. I think I got one years ago. 

There are many of the large cranes around. They fly in V's and their cry is not unlike that of a wild goose. The Chinese call them [[strikethrough]]u[[/strikethrough]]^[[n]]gan oh, or wild geese.