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were caught.  A small Sorex also & a Epimys (small).  In all some 40 specimens were taken.  A. went out with the native hunters but shot no game.  He saw a sambar disappear over a ridge [[strikethrough]] it [[/strikethrough]] which the beaters flushed.  The dogs however would not take the fresh trail.
[[circled]] 10 [[/circled]]  Several new mammals were secured today & now we have 15 ^ [[species]] from this camp in 3 days collecting.  3 chipmunks were shot, & new large or giant rat, a large Epimys, a common Tupia, a long tailed Sorex, the latter found dead in the road.  A. went out again with the native hunters but saw only a muntjac which the dogs drove down a side hill past a lot of villagers.  This morning at 10 A.M. one barked within 100 yds of camp from the forested side hill Wood & some men went after it.  It barked again when they