Fri. Sep. 17 Temp. 6.20am 59° Jockey in evening for a Dactylopside. Takes:- Van. 14 net 4 total. Ray 10 " 10 " Self 15 " 15 39 29 = 68 total. also Van put 10 the second night in out build-up (no results). Catch:- 3 Rattus colvorum in fancy open entry; 2 Satamella on "open-front" hill sites. Seen night before: boy in local villas supposedly bitten by death-adder. Old fellows round Dick came to ask help. Found the bed had been taken. Watkin’s. They had incurred the bite. No swelling developed. The bed at a big supper & went home to bed. Was OK in a.m. Sat. Sep. 18. Temp. 59°. Morton brought in 18 Pteropus Scaphulatus from lays "Crop" just above "the waterfalls", 3½ miles down the river. They comprise 17 males, 2 females. The start only turci - with two clusters. The only other Pteropus Scaphulatus camps we have seen was that on the Hkem Plain (See Aug. 30). Females, which are lighter from beneath, appear not to be pregnant. One male has the glandular side areas of the mantle very pale buff. Mantle color in others varies from lighter orange brown to dark red brown. Testes in most were large. See pp. 170. In afternoon Norman Watkin drove us out to the edge of a Lagoon (Beasley’s Lagoon) on the road from the Wallaby Creek west to "the lake" (seen from Mt. Jimmigan) of King's Plains in search of fruit-eating Kangaroos. He found them easily feeding at a patch of burnt ferns (burnt 6 weeks earlier). He & Van captured 2 females with a male pouch y. and then very young male, & an adult male. Skimmed till 9 or 10 o'clock. Sun. Sep. 19 After a very cold night we picked up & moved to Black Mountain, nearly 5½ miles from Corktown. Norman drove his truck thp open forest to the edge of a tiny perennial stream, Bowie's Spring, which runs out from under the rock-pile which is Black Mountain. The stream dries up but its rainy season bed empties into Sandy Creek. Black Mountain is a great pile of generally loose granite boulders, blackened by lichens. From it