Sun Aug 22 Temp. 6.30 am 69° Overcast. A much warmer night. - Clear sunny day. Awoke 6.30 a.m. 1930 ft.; 3.30 p.m. 1960 ft. A good catch of 15 specimens - Patulus, Belomyps, Antechinus, Sminthopsis. Jeff & Peter passed through at 4 p.m. on their way down from the upper Nestor camp to Peck River (Shepherd's Battling Silt). The animals came back for no tomorrow. Van Steach over a bat this evening - Mon Aug 23. Temp 6 am 65° Two grass Belomyps. Horace arrived about 9.30-10. Broke Camp & moved out about 11. Down at Shepherd's Battling Silt at 1.30. Don Vernon had taken several burrow censuses and 2 Aerobatis, the last in a net trap. (178 indigents to White to the base of the hair) NTB (longest way) = 80 mm, Tail 82 " N.Drrr (s.u.) 14 " Ear (firm notch) 12 " The B. was taken at the foot of a very large tree near the edge of the river in rain (falling) about 150 yards from the nearest open forest. Jackling that night took 3 Pteropus poliocephalus?, 1 P. eremicus ?, and two Dolichomys. Also two Phalanger orientalis. Thursday Aug 24. Begun all morning skinning. No truck bed arrived at 2.15 p.m. That night two Pteropus. Wed. Aug. 25 Giff & Don started at dawn to walk out and find out what was wrong. After 10 miles they passed the 10-mile mark tuck on its way in to get us. They decided to keep on to the air port of 18 miles. We left Peck River in the truck at 1.30 p.m. reached the air port at 4. There we picked up Don & Giff and reached the Corn Plant at about 5 o'clock. I walked in to town to get the mail. Spent evening wrecking 4 packing dry specimens. Thur Aug 26 Packing till 11 a.m. Then by truck out to Rothwell then 5 miles SE of Coen, where took 40 bats - 31 Rhinolophus + 9 Hipposidius cervinus. The former