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head being behind a large branch. I fired BB shot & he dropped to the ground. His companion moved away hand over hand [[strikethrough]] so [[/strikethrough]] swiftly & then stopped at 100 yds to look at us & bark a call to his companion. On skinning the gibbon I was surprised to find only 2 shot had struck him one in the abdomen which logded [[sic]] against the stomach wall & did no damage & the other penetrated his shoulder & broke a rib & then entered the lung where it caused a hemorrhage which choked the animal & filled up the whole chest cavity with clotted blood. He did [[sic]] within a few seconds as if shot thru the heart. His stomach contained chiefly green pulp of leaves with some of the red forest berries & [[strikethrough]] a [[/strikethrough]] large hard fruit pits size of an olive. I saw near here a pair of Bamboo partridges & shot one, also saw again the ♀ Silver pheasant &