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Sun. Jan. 11.
Innumerable parrots screaming & crying at dawn.
Up at 5:30 to run traps. Stefant & dry cereal &
been eggs. Did a big work in lays zone
wash tuba (This from has every trip).
Mr. Gray showed me number of photos &
also work in Camaroon ranges (almost all the barrels
have been desecrated to says). He had also some very
good pictures of the Banyo Mts., and of an abo,
tube living 200 miles N.W. of Alice Springs.
He gave me one of the latter & also a print of
two very unequal-sized young in pouch of Dendropsophus
fijianus (= canguro).
The fly pest is just as bad here as elsewhere.
Temp: 11 a.m., 93°; 3 p.m. 95°.
Photographed house; also some trees: "box", "pine", bimbit
(ananas, leafed, dense, sprawling shrubby tree), and
gydea ("gidgee"); also tamarisks by house. Dusonelle
birds, a few and a yellow, in some picture.
Mr. Gray & I drove in his Chevrolet pickup ("utility"),
eastward across the railroad & camped by the "fore"
drain (conflow ditch from artesian well). I had
in each 10 trap on one traps which next morning
were quite undisturbed.
We looked at dusk for bats but saw none.
at 8 p.m. went out with hunting lamp. After
passing at least a score of rabbits saw a
kangaroo browsing on the "cooch" grass at
the side of the ditch. It proved to be a doe
Macropus canguro with a large joey in
the pouch. We clipped the two back to camp-
between us.
Mon. Jan. 12
Up soon after 5, started the tea water Coily's
picked up traps. We left at 6, as thus were two
food sized animals to be skinned. The nipples in
the pouch consisted of 2 pairs. Three underdeveloped were
but 3 mm. long. The fourth was 80 mm. long.
The group that passed lays plane on that
further side - privately thyroids. I was cut,
I'm just coming through, if I forget I never feel
the deciduous (3 reported by one in the District