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also seen about houses & stone hedges.  This is in many places quite as abundant as in Mexico.  Graceful clumps of a tall bamboo were seen near many houses & on the roadside.  The Common large cane or [[nucell?]] bamboo was seen everywhere in seed the head being identical to our pampas grass.  At one place a few firs, Cunninghamia with erect cones but presistant on them.

(15)  Our luck was good in trapping.  My traps produced another Red Spiney rat like the one secured near the Mekong.  There were also 3 Micronys, 3 Microtus & a Pachyura.  A secured a grayish mouse which look new to us & some Pachyuras.  We broke camp at 8 A.M. in a light fog & continued our way up the Yang-pi River which the road follows all day.  At noon we stopped near a wide expanse of rice fields in flower where there were tawny geese, 3 of which I shot.