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the way down the road passed a large pond, a resivor [[sic]] with a high bank on one side. Some 75 or 100 ducks were on the surface, mallards & scaup-ducks & one gray goose. They were shy & we shot only one, a ♂ mallard. No geese or ducks were seen in the flooded rice fields near by. I shot 2 jack snipes in rice fields & one of the white crowned red bodied winter wag-tails. Below the cave a good sized stream of water issued from a smaller, lower walled cave. This water was [[fairly?]] moving.
[[boxed in left margin]] 27 [[/boxed in left margin]] Collected birds today as mammal trapping failed. A black robin, 2 species of rufous-stone-chats, a weaver bird, crimson vented Bulbul & a wryneck, [[strikethrough]] these [[/strikethrough]] & a green kingfisher were skinned
[[boxed in left margin]] 28 [[/boxed in left margin]] Continued the bird work & added a purple thrush of large size, the common black & white magpie, a goldfinch, a slaty