except when damns back. Heat very oppressive; - trap at 1.30, 92°; cold at night, & I needed extra blanket for hammock at 3 a.m. Reilly says that then an "very few" animals left here. Possibso "used to be low". Among the "roos", according to Reilly, are the red & great gray, the wallaroos, the strip-tail (rarely). Saw one fox. Red-winged parrots feed on sunflowers. Retracted taps in p.m. Saw black's from duck with eight young. Baby ducks swam across creek while mother stood war guard fully exposed. Young swam out from corn & whole family swam away down middle of stream. I followed on foot, finally catching up rather close. The females parked the youngsters in some cavities in the opposite bank (when, look as I would, I could not see them), swam out to mid-stream return flight. Trapping is big to be very hard in this place. Went out jackrabbiting from 8 to 10 p.m. up the stream, Saw a number of rabbits but absolutely nothing else. Night hunt in this county absolutely requires a compass. There are no trails. The semi-open secondary forest is monotonously uniform. So far as I am concerned the southern constellations mean little or nothing. Wasted a shell on a slowly log (there is still much burning fire on), It takes nearly 2 hours in early morning to run the trap line. Only 3 mm house mice - I call so badly damaged by ants as to be worthless. Took second photographs, kodachrome, for the record. It occurs to me that Reilly has his possession the natural rodents out here just as the placental fox & rabbit have routed the native marsupial fauna, Temperature 6 a.m. 81°; 10 a.m. 86°; 11.30, 91°; 3 p.m., 90°. 5 p.m. 87°. Met Alban Barnes, Manager of the Reilly property. He says there is very good 2 miles north of the line of miles west - but beyond dawn, other Wallaroos, Grays & Reds reeds, but no strip tails. He says this is a skeleton of a flying phalangia largely on the wire fence 4 miles west, & that once a Koala was seen. (This last artificial 5 mi.)