1948 Archbold Cape York Expedition Journal of G. H. H. Tate. December1, 1947-October27, 1948
Page 143
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Extra Mammal supplies for Wenlock - Corn work, 1 box B.B. 1 box 9 1 " 6 1 " 410 #11 1 " " dust. 2 cans bait large tail wire naphthaline + cotton 1 labels (Stuck). file wrapping paper 2 boxes buttons beaming board formelis paradichlorb. alcohol. repellent. 1 iodine Epsom salts Rit. 22 am. Van's box 38? 4 suitcases " wants no 94 (Bretten and binder.) Fri. July 16. Van shot a tiny Seotemis last night & Knockdown a RhinoPhus with a stick. Roy brought a grass Helomya & Van another. I had luck; took our first Desembrimys, a young male, in a double steel set placed at the base of one of the few surviving cedar sarrano trees at the base of which is a Joanna hole. Sat. July 17 Last night we went out early, taking only our lights, to a dry creek a mile west. At dusk we shot thru Taphosoma flaviventris. About 8:30 George Nankevins came through from Wenlock bringing a fine male wallaroo shot at the west fork of Sir William Thompson Range (a low rise in the land dividing the Burton & Parker drainage systems from each other). The Taphosoma are white beneath being slightly dusky posteriorly - very yellow. There is a thorax prong in both sexes (Ceratophragma). All paired divarticula - two sacs & ich by, beneath the skin, open into the base of each formelis on either side of the median line. Those of the 9 are much smaller than those of the male. The wallaroo weighed 93 lbs. Its i3 considerably worn, its m2 not fully in place.