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[[header note]] March 5 add [[/header note]]

of the red stemmed figs trees with broad leaves were seen in the forest but no animal appear to eat the fruit now.
The Mohammaden Shan hunters shot a ♀ Muntjac today.
A shot a yg ♂ Gibbon & saw one other.  Yesterday he saw two Ratufas chasing one another thru the trees.  I met a small covey of bamboo partridges in the forest where they were scratching in the soft loam.  [[strikethrough]] I [[/strikethrough]] They never leave the forest for the ricefields as do most gallinaceous birds of Asia.
The forest of the hills is charming at this season.  There are no annoying insects & the trees give a cool shade. [[strikethrough]] N [[/strikethrough]] The under shrubs are annoying only in the more open spots which are overgrown by long grass.  The trees are evergreen laurel & figs chiefly but in habit are like an oaks & alders.  The soil even on steep hillsides is a loose reddish loam & moist altho lichens are about owing to the porous rock which is limestone.