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Smithsonian Notes David C. Graham -6- Mammal 1166 Mupin Aug. 5, 1931 1167 " [[ditto marks for "Mupin"]] Jan.19, " [[ditto marks for "1931"]] Squirrel. [[Two red "x"s in left margin. Red checkmarks over box numbers 19, 22 and 23 in text.]] We have labeled and wrapped all the mammals as enumerated above. They have been poorly skinned and wrapped. Box 19 is insects captured in Chengtu, Nov. 20, 1932 to March. 20, 1933. Box 20 has panda skins. Box 21 has mammal bones including the panda. Box 22 has insects caught in Chengtu, Mar. 22, 1931. Box 23 has insects caught in Chengtu Mar. 1931 to 1932. Box 24 has five mammal skins. Box 25 has animal bones. Box 26 has animal bones of the black bear recently purchased. Box 27 has four bottles of snakes, salamanders, etc. [[four red "x"s in left margin]] Mar. 8. Filled box 28 with mountain rat skins and one pheasant from Mupin. Box 29 has the bones of the white panda, etc. Box 30 Bones of the large antelope and small mammals. Box 31, Skin of large antelope. Box 32, Skin of white panda. The boys got many long legged grand-daddies but little else. I had carpenters making boxes, filled and labeled several boxes of specimens. [[red check marks over box numbers 33 and 34 in text]] April 11. Filled Box 33, has a foot of the white panda in Box 32 and also some bottled insects. Box 34, insects from Chengtu, Altitude 1700 ft, April 7-10,1933. Today I took on a new collector of insects, etc., Mr. Li. [[red check marks over box numbers 35 and 36 in text]] April 14. I today made arrangements for a collector to go to [[underlined]]Yuman[[/underlined]]^[[Yunnan]] Province next summer, collecting snakes, insects, etc. Filled box 35, insects, Chengtu, alt. 1700 ft., and Box 36, Ratskins and 12 bird skins, 1 pheasant, 2 blackbirds, 9 sparrows. April 15. Cloudy and threatening rain. We are getting a great many grand-daddy long legs. At first there were many young ones but now large ones are monopolizing the field. April 19. The netters have been working every day with varying success. I am getting ready for a ten day trip downstream in which I can train my men better. Ho and Yang should not get back until about the end of my trip. The netters are working both day time and night time. April 24. During the past few days we have had little success securing insects. April 21. The boat started down river yesterday and we took rickshas to Tsong Shiu Tsang, where we got on the boat and went on to Fu Jia Ba. I have had poor success with night lanterns. Thousands of tiny gnats came but no moths. April 22. [[check mark in left margin]] May 2. Our trip to the country brought very little results. The two collectors have been working daily, filling a number of boxes. The carpenter Wang came from Mupin, saying he had brought a white panda to Y[[strikethrough]]u[[/strikethrough]]^[[a]]cho[[strikethrough]]n[[/strikethrough]]^[[w]] for me. I sent him back to Mupin to collect large mammals, snakes, lizards and frogs. My two young netters have been working night and day. I have been sick with influenza several days and am beginning to recover.
