1948 Archbold Cape York Expedition Journal of G. H. H. Tate. December1, 1947-October27, 1948
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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