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set at the baited cavity beneath the bait guard.
Despite my having set the traps "hard", the crickets
by crowd onto the heads, often set the tops off.
They were Camillabatic & the newcomers
enthusiastically devoured the stiff living bodies of
those snapped in the tops. In one sprung trap
with loose treadle I saw one cricket wrestling
with the movable treadle in its attempts to get at
the bait under the bait guard, raising & lowering
the hinged treads in its attempt. Several
crickets came into camps, apparently attracted
by our fires. The crickets appeared to be more
plentiful when rain or fog-drip was falling.
Rain stopped at about 7 pm. Night
remained dry. Picked up traps in the morning.
3 new grass belongs at Fardon Sully. Jeff
& Willi came after 10 to help move Camps down
below. Annied hit after 12.
Van meanwhile had trapped a native cat,
Satanellus & Procton had left on a few large
male spotted cuscus. A few smaller mammals
had been brought in, but the fauna in general
remains very scanty. From the Tozer area
facially we have only 11 species. And we
come out next morning.
Sat
July 10
Another native cat (Van) - a young & with its pouch and a
distinctive purplish pink. Females 4-4 = 8 Pouch of y. animal
little developed.
Dr. Jon cycled out on west road photographing. Couple
fresh foot prints of dingos & pigs but none of wallaby.
New signs of bandicoots.
Sun
July 11.
Last night made an eight-trap set for dingos, the tracks
of which were numerous on the road ½ mile to a mile west
of camps. Nothing caught or disturbed this morning, however.
Fine, fair day yesterday & everything dried up. Today
cloudy & threatened shower again.