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the trees evidently her offspring but it vanished before we got near.  The rain & mist were thick at this time but we continued thru the forest & descended toward the creek.  Here we met the apes again & I shot an old [[symbol: male]] & a half grown yg before they fled.  The stomach of all 3 apes contained only green leaf pulp and no seeds or berries.  In the evening at dusk I watched for squirrels near the village & finally saw one of the giant flying squirrels sail down across an open meadow & alight at the base of a large tree.  I stalked it in the dim light & shot it.  As it flew or sailed it looked much like a gliding pheasant with its long tail streaming out behind.  A went to a bat cave with a Liso & returned with 28 giant [[?hyeterus]] some what like the species he collected at Yenping.