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at dusk A. & Caldwell knocked down several bats of a species which lived in the roof of the temple. One was a large Scotophilus [[strikethrough]] Eplasicus [[/strikethrough]] & the other a black[[underline]] Myotis[[/underline]]. I set out a line of steel traps with Caldwell down the creek where he caught a water mongoos yesterday. [[circled]] 28 [[/circled]] Rained about midnight & again at dawn. Caldwell caught a large rat size and appearance of [[underline]] Cricetomys [[/underline]]. Altogether we trapped 15 rats, 13 of them spring rats, 1 water rat & one black rat in the monastary. Six large [[underlined]] Scotophilus [[/underlined]] were also taken with switches by A & C. at the monastary where they roost during the day beneath the tiles of the roof. Caldwell caught a large rat size of and appearance of an African Cricetomys. Caught 2 garter snakes in the P.M. in rat traps. [[encircled]] 29 [[/encircled]] Another large rat was caught by Andrews in a steel trap where the first one was trapped yesterday. Andrews & Kellogg