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[[encircled]]30[[/encircled]] We caught only one weasel today in the steel traps.  There are no rats or mice in the rat traps.  I shot a few [[gressgrits?]] a tailor bird & a blue magpie.
   During the night it rained & there was distant thunder & lightening.  In the P.M. a wind storm visited us with heavy rain.

[[encircled]]31[[/encircled]] At daybreak Caldwell went out for pigs but saw nothing in the rice fields across the valley.  The weasel I caught yesterday was quite different from the ones caught at Longtow by Andrews. It was small & dark brown above with yellowish belly while the others were light tawny yellow both above & below the belly [[strikethrough]]being[[/strikethrough]] merging in color with the back.  Caldwell departed for the monastery across the mountains where A & K are hunting for tigers.  I went up to the upper traps after breakfast & found a [[female symbol]] Palm civet, Paradoxurus in a [[strikethrough]]the[[/strikethrough]] steel trap.
  Day cloudy & very humid & without any breeze.  Caldwell says the