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as I set more traps on edge of rice fields & then tied the dogs to the tiger traps 
There was rain at 10 p.m. but it lasted only a few minutes-but the thunder & lightening continued all day, night

(24)  Day cloudy but very sultry. Inside the tiger [[strikethrough]] trap [[/strikethrough]] traps there was [[strikethrough]] only [[/strikethrough]] nothing, so we turned the dogs loose & they returned home.  The rat traps caught only 2 Spiny rats & one shrew in some  60 traps.  Everyone went bird hunting but without great success.  There are few birds here & these only of a few species.  Most of them are bullbills, dial birds, chickadees, Redbilled magpies, 2 species of kingfishers, orioles & laughing thrushes.  The bushes in flower are a white rose, a myrtle (Myrica) a pink flowered Saxifrage & a few Salvias Compositae were not seen in flower  Caldwell says that a Sambar deer has been shot near Yeuping up the Min River, also serows, a black 

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