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do not keep dogs, I suppose owing to the climate being unfavorable or owing to ravages by leopards. At the town of Meng-ting I saw many dogs but the natives on the road as well as at the market had none with them. The only crop cultivated here is tobacco. The rice fields all show neglect. On my way back from the trap line I witnessed an unusual animal hunt. In the meadow I saw a brown weasel which had evidently run down two large rats which ^[[could]] move about only slowly in front of it. When we came on the scene the weasel retreated hastily into the sword grass & the rat soon after followed suit going passed us in slow bounds. The day was cloudy & this scene took place at 10:30 AM on a bare rice terrace or field of low terraces. At dark I shot a bat near the creek opposite the village. It was very small & had an absolutely flat thin skull quite different from any other genus I know.