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

Tate, G. H. H. (George Henry Hamilton), 1894-1953; Van Deusen, Hobart M; American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy. Field Book Collection; American Museum of Natural History; Cape York Expedition (1948)

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Shipments to B.P., Cairns no. 96 # 1 From Thursday Island (SS. Alajna) 1 Krockdan boa skins # 2. " Portland Roads. (SS Wardana) 2 black boxes no. 24 - skulls no. 95 steins # 3. " Portland Roads June 26-27. (SS Wadana) 1 Krockdon box # 97 1. st. 1 Black box (small skins) # 74 1 " " ( " ") # 23 # 4 " Portland Roads for Cairns. 1 Black box # 27 (Sm. skins). 1 " # 74 (aler skulls) 1 " # 30 (nam. serpens) 1 " # 32 (H.V.D.) 1 Amm. box # 16 (Amm.) 1 " " # 90 (skulls) 1 empty air can (H.V.D.). #5. " In Cooktown 1 Seen box. 1 Blackbox # 67 2 Ann boxes # 11, 12 1 package (3 Krockdons) #6 " Coen 1 box large skulls (air express) #7 " Coen 3 black boxes (sm. gram.) #4 1 Krockdon (stith. seeds) 1 large black box (8. skins) #8 Cooktown 2 black b. (21, 67) 1 " murextraps (19) 1 Campbell quill 3 Ammo - (8, 11, 12) 1 Black b. (box) (34)

1947. Dec. 1 Left Grand Central Station, Len & Betty saw me off. 5 Left San Francisco (P.A.A.) a few minutes before midnight. 6 Arrived Honolulu 9.30 a.m. Left again 3 p.m. [Red C. Barrett "Koonwarra" a Rotcliffe; "Kyr Fires & Wif?7 Sand] 6 Arrived Carter Island about midnight. (Crossed international date line (lost a day). 8 Arrived Fiji for breakfast. " Noumea (30 miles away from), New Caledonia for lunch, " Sydney 6.30 p.m. Held up there for re-vaccination. Dec. 11.- Steamer "Biddulph Victory", on which my equipment traveled, reached Sydney. She was at anchor out in the harbor until a couple of days before Christmas, and my cargo cars arrived too late for me to work in New South Wales as planned. Dec. 12-29 The Christmas season precluded moving the goods until after Christmas and there were other complications; I worked meanwhile at the Museum, measuring, photographing, etc., the choicer mammals of the collection. Troughton left for his vacation at Lord Howe Island on Dec. 17th. I attended the annual museum "snoteo" as guest. There were with speeches and several paid entertainers. Very enjoyable. a. Skelton Met Mr. Jorguit, a Lessee, who took me to lunch at the Zoo, wanted to arrange for me to visit his sister's station at Widgiewar (southwest NSW), but (Uno) Otway Falkiner, lack of equipment prevented. Prof. E.T. Helstrom, weekly manufacturer & sequinatore, who is interested in keeping the Zoo (ties kangaroos & a collection of African animals); has a private collection of panoto and birds & possums. His assistant: Mr. Aspely. Visited Yvonne Reim's father, Mr. S. Aureousseau at Granville* and her cousin, Mr. Tom Miller at Cheltenham. Discovered lost branch of my own family - Reginald and Gladys Tata at Woolahra & Bordi, respectively. Received "Troyatic". The Museum men met were: A.B. Wiskom, Director; Whitley, Ichthyology; * Buono, 140 to Woodland Road

List of Mammals of NE Australia Based on "Buried Animals of Australia" - E. Troughton and other work. Ornithorhynchus anatinus florensis Tasmanops australis aconthiin Antechinus flavipes adustus " sodmani Planigale trigramis bennettii Sminthopsis crassicaudata macrura " lemboltzi Dasymys gnoll. (?) Satanelius tallucatus praetor Dasymys sp. gracilis " " maculatus (?) "Striped Marsupial Cat" Isoodon peninsulae Echimyza macronyx torosus Tiliomelus nasuta palllescens Acrobatia pygmaeus frontalis Eudromice macrura Dactylopala picata " funosa (?) Petaurus breviceps longicaudatus " norfolcensis gracilis " australis ryinae Setonobatis minor Pseudocheirus peregrinus peregrinus " " incanens " " lebertensis lebertensis " " collitii " " arcteri " " Lemuroides lemuroides " " cervinus Trichosurus vulpecula macrurus " " johnstoni " " churacensis Phalanger maculatus mediocaudatus " orientalis ? Hypsiprymnodon moschatus Pettorius lesueur (? ?) Aepyprymnus rufescens Lagostrophus conspicillatus pallidior Dendrolagus lemboltzi " bennettianus

1947 Miss Joyce Allan, Cntology; Musgrave at Mc Krown, entomologists; Kinghorn, reptiles and birds; T. Fredale, monographs of Australian literature; Raintow, librarian; Hatcher, invertebrate palaeontology. In Sydney Stayed at: Stretford Hall (Mrs Neil) Phone FM 3687 47 Yarranabee Road (Bus 369 to Thornton Rd) Darling Point. Visited Botanical Gardens. Got a few books at Stores: Angus of Peterson; Tyrrell; Moore (who was Geoffrey Vernon); K. Stewart. (S. H. Barker at Brisbane) Maps for Rainbows. Permit for Children. Patin Bork. Dec. 29 Left Sydney at 1.35 pm. Arranged sleep on train. Dry scrub with small eucalyptus trees over high, ridgy country. Much burnt. At 2.50 down to the drowned estuary of the Hawkesbury River - miles of winding, twisted valleys among steep hills clothed with dry forest. Cypri beels. Resorts. 3.02 Way-way - a resort 3.10 Sopwith, a brigalow country town where there is some citrus grown. So far looked in rain for unburned country. 3.50 Groveset. Some ford-sized hills west. Don Creek. This is again drowned land. Followed by Lysin (flood). 4.10 Teralba, Cockle Creek. This is another large estuary. Entering mining country - slag heaps, turning definitely away from the sea. 4.30 Cardiff, outpost of Newcastle 4.28 Broadmeadow. Swamps and tidal river reach west. Saw magpies, Crows & Currawongs. Then going steadily up valley. 5.40. West Maitland. Rock beds dip steeply to S.E. 6.15 Whole broad again descended by two and turned into dairy pastures. A totally disorganised lunch for supper at next stop - Mittagong - AT 7.20pm. Dark. Dec. 30, 5.00-6.30 a.m. Slept early as soon awake. Country closed all through highlands to Slim Downs; though

Collected Petrogale incornata [illegible] Thylotale stigmaticus cosenii " " stigmaticus Protemnodon agilis jardini " parryi " bicolor apicalis " rupicollis " dorsal Macropus (Ospthantus) robustus reginae " (nygalesa) rufus dissimulata " (Macropus) cergure Hydromys [illegible] " mbae Xeromyx myoides (?) Rattus leucopus " conatus " assimilis coracius " culmorum apex " villosissimus Leggadina bernyei " patria Mesembriony pouldii rattoides Conilurus penicillatus race Notonyx alexis alexio " " reginae " agilo Melomys cervinipes eboeus " littoralis " australiensis " limicanda Uromys cardinalembatius Pteropus scapulatus " jouldii " emaspicillatus Dobsonia mejana Nyctimera robinsoni " [illegible] Syconycteris australis Odontonycteris pygmaea Rhino lophus megaphyllus Rhinonycteris aurantiacus

1949 Dec. 30. 15 minutes north of there the land is snow-battered spoiled. 6.30, A broad grassy valley & every stream flowing west. Much sheet erosion. 6.33, Blunder. All steep country. Some wooded hills 10 miles west. 6.47 - 7.15 Good, worthwhile collecting country :- 6.47 Deepwater, 3183 feet. 7.02 Unspoiled hills east. 7.04 Masses of large boulders west, forested. Good Kelly County. Railroad very winding. 7.10 All good ridgy country. 7.12 A green steep-pasture valley 7.13 wooded hills and studded stream east 7.15 Unspoiled scarp east of track, 7.18 Bolivia. Lerpup willows much planted in bottom lands, 7.32 Sandy Flat-farming, wooded hills 10 mi E 7.42 Rocky hills west. 7.47 Rock cliffs west. 7.52 Rocky hillside west. 7.54 Bentgulla 8.08 Tenterfield. Not good; too much cleaving. 9.10 Wollon Farm (boundary; change to Q.S.S. label) 9.27 Lysa (no food) 11.53 River. Termite hills numerous, Begin Derby Dams, 12 noon Warwick (left there 12.20). 1.15 Clifton. Soil black rich. Fertile wheat country "Stocks" if grain. 1.22 Rigg's Creek, Low wooded hills 3 miles west, Directed peneplain ? 2.02 Camborya. Open, loam-soil farming country. Toowoomba. Soil red before reaching, 7.30 Toorians. To Lennons Hotel, George St. 183211. The last portion: Steeply down the scarp from Toowoomba for 101 miles to Toorians. Ipswich, Cool-mining town. Numerous farmers' cool pits passed. Cool beds 20-30 feet down. Dec 31. Bought a street map with taxi straight to Queensland Museum. Found district George Rocks already there. He took me to Customs house when we saw 20 Bishops,

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1947 Dec. 31. Box am, a duntir, livs at Cairns. Bros cleared bagge at me. It was delivered to mum at 4.20 pm. just in time for us to break open the crates & take out the boxes. Commenced planning western trips. 1948. Jan. 1. Worked all day unpacking & arranging contents of boxes. That evening crossed river to visit C.T. White, botanist of Brisbane Gardens. Also met Mrs White, who brews a pot of coffee. White furnished many details of special trees, not only for western line but for subsequent travel. Rainy steady early. Fri. Jan. 2. To Botanic Gdns, where White introduced me to his wife Blake and Smith. They added much more information. Plans nearly complete. Book at museum & work on equipmr. Question of permit and all-lines tickets - Also the 3 cut rule. A visit in the evening with Ann Lethbridge, of Inkerman Sta., 200 miles N. of Normanton (5 hrs from jiffy. Sandy Ridge Gutter). (See Jan 3) Jan. 3. Called on manager of Penney's (P.D.P. 150, actually), W. McQuee about supplies. W. Kennedy, i/c the frocery department. McQuee mentioned G.W. B.W. Vidgton, Chelten St., W. Chelten, who has a statue refer at Somerset. Last night Mrs Lethbridge gave name of daughter, Mrs (D?) W. Griffin, Clermont, out from Emerald on the With Line; also if another daughter, Mrs C. M. Curr of Taldora, 120 m. N. of Tullia Creek (between Charters Towers and Cloncurry). [Road to Inkerman: via Mingana, to Mitchell R. District.] In p.m. Track took me to the top of the nearby ridges, Mt. Cooha. Good view of city & sea, with Stilghole & Moreton Islands beyond. Sun. Jan 4. Jim Brass called up in morning. We are to meet tomorrow. Spent most intimately afternoon & evening with Mrs & Mr. Heber- Longman at their home at River Terrace, Cheltenham, V 7824, via Indooroopilly. He was formerly director of the Museum. Mack has not taken his place.

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1948. I knew him in 1936-1937 when Dras on the 2nd Archbold New Guinea Expedition. The dysentery (or impetition?) was his flaw. They have a lovely garden. He has caught bandicoots Brotom ocelata at foot of janda beside river with fox traps, and used to have Tachypleurus at times - also Baeodocous and Trichoramus. In janda many interesting plants: Lagerstroemia, Ironstein, Plumbya, Acacia, Ink a couple of photos of them (the Bryophytes). Mon, Jan. 5. Bram came to the museum to met Mark. He & I took supper with Mr. and Mrs. C.T. White. Smith, White's assistant was also there. Tues, Jan. 6. The permit for the Archbold party was bought over in the morning. I took my gear to the station at 11, and left on the 3.20 train. Was introduced to Mr. O'Shea, politician for out in the western line area, who knew a good deal about the county. Also met W. Allen, agriculturist, of the National Research Station, 20 miles S.E. of Cunnamulla, who suggested I go out to them. Chased my present district from Mungallala to Angellala on advice. A scout named Buchanan got me at Toowoomba. Noted some (doubtful) interesting places:- Lockyer Creek; 556 feet; banks lined with lush vegetation. Murphy's Creek, 796 ft. Some woody but creek smaller. Rocky cliff opposite Calabria, nearing summit. Reached Toowoomba on Tues - 7.15 p.m. Wed, Jan 7. Awoke after we left Roma about 5 a.m. We were going through a greasy county almost deforested. A gully Lay's suspended body of water at Eurella, 1262 ft., 382 miles from Brisbane but no shape of Tennant until after leaving Mitchell, 372 miles. There are low hills both north and south of Mitchell about 10 miles from the railway. Another hill with J. Llandlisi, 384 miles. Quite good underground at 392 miles between Ambroola and Oolie, 393 m. At Mungallala, 400, when I had to take a stay, I found everything cleared for miles. Both indigo and trigonot present in about equal quantities. Morison is quite a little town, with rocky out crops to S.W. Just report is the "natural"

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Open grassland passes Victoria Dams. Most of the land is thinly treed to dry. There are my few creeks that reach are. Angelala Reached Angelala at 10.45 a.m. (442 miles). Only two places anywhere near the tracks: The first is the railroad town, where Mr. & Mrs. James Dutch live. Dutch works only the line; Mrs. Dutch acts as station mistress. The other party is Mr. Reilly, wealthy owner of a large property, on the south side of the track. I am staying with the hospitable Dutch’s. After lunch took a long walk up the creek, very dry except for the impounded water behind a 6 ft concrete dam. The county for is so flat that the stream becomes backed up for several miles. The trees hundreds are said by Reilly to be very backed back of some 9 miles away from the railroad. There has been much burning. Old stumps show that the bush was once thick. Most trees not are a foot or two in diameter. There are burnt remains of 4-5 feet, some with along the creek on other side; but not any about 2 feet. A few scanty bits of trunk adjoin the creek. At 6 o’clock set out my 20 net traps — 10 in flood-debris heaps, 5 in bushy places by the creek, 5 near creek valley. Dan stopped in the roadside, my hammock stay cornerwise. Thurs. Jan? Rain traps at 5 a.m. Found two mice which are very like house mice (the skulls with 3-2 = 10 managers.). Dutch set in his house + caught a number of others. Skinned the two wild-caught specimens. Rabbits abundant. A considerable variety of panto & joleks. Apostle bird, butcher bird, curra, black shrike curra, magpie, fantails, finch, jocko, "black ducks". Went out at 10 with Dutch on horseback to see dam up water holes at 4 as 8 miles out. Ragged tracks in mud but not many. Simplex & glaucous — shaped white daisies wild (escaped) and statum. Creek nearly dry

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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.)

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Set. Jan 10. Tempe. 3 a.m. 73°; 6 a.m., 76°. Left Angellala on "Western Rail" Train for Mirrabooka, near Offham, where Mr N. Geary had invited me. The way leads thru quartitis & Mulga to Charleville, Then I met Mr. Buchanan & Mr. A.A. Baker, Mayor of Charleville. The latter very anxious that I should go out to the Carnarvon Range, 160 miles north, where abrigoid burials and cuttings of "barks" in caves are plentiful. There was a dining car which was put on at Mitchell. A sleeper was cut off at Charleville. Around last salt, 13 miles W. of Charleville, where the Quilpie line branches N., I saw a "bottle bush"- like shrub, 4-8 ft., with large orange inflorescences. A pink-flowered tree along the tracks. Along toward Dilkaka (517 miles) the mulga is smaller & closer. Day lage "dorms" at Wyandie and Cleverton, quite the impression of artificial clearing, but Mr. Geary assures me that all such forest-cleared areas are completely natural. Quantities of pink heusted, pearl gray galekas fanata. Plants everywhere very bad. Large red mounded Territorian ; the latter sometimes taken over by large active bleekie road-making ant. Mr. Geary's station at Mirrabooka is on a "fore drain" - small stream flowing from an antecedent fore hole. It is a fine large sheep property with an excellent home, well screened, with ample water piped to the room. A delightful shower. Trees around include tamarisk, "pie" ( ), "box" ( ), gidgie ( ). We at noon set out 20 mouse traps in spots that looked fairly promising (The yield was a single mouse home). We had roast lent shank potatoes with fried custard pudding. Then till I go awaked up. (The family is away, Dr. S. above). I sling my hammock out on the porch, but a wind for 12+2+4:00 cooled the air that I had to more inside.

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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

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Of Trachoma late this last year. I3 was not Developed. The only stark teeth were p3 and dp4. The movement of the lower ram may spread the irritation for cleaning. Temp. 3 pm., 96°. Drove over to Offham, 565 miles from Brisbane, in the afternoon. A more picturesque forestland than Mirribooks, with much more shade and an ever-flowing six inch brook only a little way from the house. We drove due to Goulburne Hole on the Warrego River and camped there for the night. Twenty set traps and ten more traps produced only one straw coloured stone mouse (which am saving). Jacking from 8 to 10 resulted only in the accidental shooting of a Boobook owl, the paired eyes of which I thought were those of a flying phalanger. No other eyes, not even of a rabbit, was seen. A fat bat flew through its beams. The Warrego at that place is a substantial river with numerous dry flood beds, which made perfect fishing beds for one of the hunting lizards. (See photos.) At Offham we stayed for tea and met the manager and Palmer. This relative. Offham is Mrs. Gerry's real feed party. It is just holding the fort at Mirribooks in his brother's absence. The vegetation at Goulburne Hole is the finest I have seen in eastern Queensland. Huge Eucalyptus rostrata, pines with beautiful smooth pale black peen bark fringe the water, and great gnarled old Eucalyptus coriacea; Coolibahs, with shaggy, blackish grey bark stand higher up in the dry soil. Masses of bubbly fringing shrubbery are formed by low-growing thorn-tree, Melaleuca. The book has been flowing since 1908, years. Its flow- during that time has fallen off by about 20%. The great rat plague of N. Queensland originated in the Hayfield area in March 1909. Were they R. villosus? How was a lytton plague in 1908. Both years were "good" years for vegetation. The rats appeared in such swarms that if a bone were thrown out from the camp supportable eyes (I can't read to eat at it. Fiddler, worthy estate had to be pulled away at night + all brush doors tightly closed. In

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1948. The wreck of the rabbit frog ferries was elopped by the Cobis of the rats, caught at their hide quarters. Tu. Jan. 13 Took several pictures at the river side camp on the Warrego, then from to shrin th mone. M. Seany jam on what looks like an ammonite, collecter Jan. 1906 at Cameron Downs Station, Hyden District in bank of Landsborough River, in reworked soil. Photographed a green tree toad which at night wanders about the from snakes & antise like snore sawing wood. Put Kangaro shells out on "meat-ants" nest under protective wire to keep away cat or dogs. The periodicity of the rat infestations is like that of the lemmings but they do not occur in exactly the same regime. {Note} Mullalbun Guest House, Benya Rato, via Dalby. {Lucerne patch, forester: Reg. Cullin (Reg Sterling)} Stock buyer. Maiden, "Mayor" & Dajine, Foot of cliffs (cpr) 50 miles from Injune. Bottle tree; eucalypt scrub. Readman's shed on Boogaribba Creek. (Telyan, 3/8) {Lamington Plateau O'Reilly - Tambourine.} {Sprig Goath} A pair of wedge-tailed eagles on a dry tree. Seany has studied their nests. Wide variety: snails pigs; bits of kangaro; foammes; and 20% lamb. He has Twice seen a pair of these birds kill full grown Kangaro. They beat them with their wings & wear them down - then literally tear them to pieces. Thermom. 4 pm, 86°. {At Dalby: Thomas Jack, Mayor. - for Benya Rato.} {Street Hope: Snowbullan -(lots lost). (severe amaster)} {Stirling: A house in Tinley due east (property owner)} {Cullens': Lucerne patch (first spray) & Shack.} Wed. Jan. 14 A very cold night. Temp. 5.30 down to 68° Two hours miles in traps. The white-tailed amid Taken y'day may have been a Thelomys. M. Seany reports that a large cat once brought in a fat-tailed "mouse" (Strictopso), No trace of them at present.

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Modifications, defects in equipment: black leads pins to smaller; smaller needles; finer thread; bait needs more peanut butter (wetter); arsenic + alum to be crusted finer; frying pan; wire bread; writing pad; stabilisation; Dally: fossils: Horned Jack - opp. T. T. Co. (cross line to S. side). Hotel Russell. Late afternoon again visited Offham. Had supper with the Palmers this. No mammals. Grany gave me some photos of natives, ants, a good picture of the cliffs of Carnarvon Range (which I'll not have time to visit); A Tachyglottus was seen at Offham 2 months ago. "Tasty years back possums & bears" (koalas) occurred ably by the Barrego River." A few bats sometimes seen. Rats (wallaby) occasionally taken. No regular rat born. A few mice, then, Bilbies and skink common. Saw steep sprayed. This is a land of spirits: hours: the "julianised bar", a corn cockle that may have come from Arrecie, Other minute bars. Grany thinks a dust storm threatens. Driving back to Perinabooka saw the eyes and John If a small fox. Thu Jan 15 Picked up traps & caught 9.30 train returning towards Brisbane. Plan to set off at Dally or go up to Binya Mountains. Mann train declares: csallarous used to come near Charleilles - Quilpui line; emus still common, red kangaroos on Mitchell grass downs; grey kangaroos in mulga. Black-stripped wallabies (feral) few miles southeast of Charleilles. Possums lost disease; then times often in hollow trees. Bilbies were common 40 years ago. He has fifty ground on his place. Right-talking drives them out. He pays 25/- per day to man for digging trees. Fri, Jan. 16 Reached Dally at 5.30 a.m. Everything tightly closed till about 8 o'clock. Called on Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Tocke. He is mayor of Dally & much interested in jelly out fossils. He had the jargon + hardware business but has decided to fasten it his own. He is a Sect from His car available to go to Binya today, but Mr. Tocke's general manager Dr. Bosellis arranged for Mr. Baker of Binya to take me up tomorrow. Meanwhile we have talked fossil land. Dinosaurs from "upper Permian" at [illegible] MacKie, William Billings 40 minutes Candamind Highway Chinchilla is of Luka (fossil)

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Tassom, Adaville west of Charlville, and (the first ever from according to Jack) from "Chinchilla forms western edge of drips curios Lake. Other localities are various creeks cut in the block east at at Mockico place at Wiambilla, 40 miles down the Condamine Highway, at Timbous Creek & thus of the Condamine drainage system. Hard sandstone hereby...." W. Jack has still a few fossils - parts of Diprotodon chiefly. He has one which neither of us can ravel: I am going to photograph it. It is part of a mandible, the inner half chipped away, exposing a single longitudinally striated tooth & after traces (infrequent) of alveoli infantilis and behind it. Externally there are 3 small foramina. Beneath the nerve canal is wholly exposed by brushing away the inferior part of the dentary. Engraved a dent at the heel. Studying trees, carpet snakes, up on Bungya. Chapman of Melbourne (palaeontologist). The found: Ringtail; Possum; Phalangis; mouse perruna; scrub wallaby; dingo; pig kangaroo at foot; wombat; quinin into stripes; wandpied mice; bats; (Caves tell us Stilts' house). Bed of Condamine averages 20 feet below present ground level." (Eucalyptus?) Grindle Creek, at Glen Morgan - Senat - 100 m. SW of Dally. In lateriticited conglomerates. (2 pieces) Plastic (crenatra) in Dally 1870. Noweppre. "At Bridgetown during quickly, from just the death address were so plentiful that people couldn't go about at night without a light." Bungya R.G. 2nd. Jan. 17 Myall Creek (phot.) Due to leave Dally with Stan Baker (who turns out to be the son of mayor Baker of Charlville), but we did not get away until 10.30. Reached the foothills of the Bungya Ranges at 11.30 & for up to its Guest House at 12.30. The way did much over block and plateau mainly to what. Then the country canged in patched to outcrops of "basaltic" (said it in) rock - low flat, tipped hills - outliers of Bungya Ranges. The grey-green Eucalypt forest persisted, then trees intermingled with the deeper green of rain forest, yarrah

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A number of bare patches of pasture - often by steep slopes up things the frank to the crest, dry land artificial to me. impressive quantities in patches and bands could be seen hiking up the rays. The road became increasingly bad but the hard pick-up climbed it quite well. We gradually extended valley, crossing rivers over a small stream repeatedly. We were climbing near the eastern edge of the ridge (which is really it). Past still, to the right (as east) lay a very large high patch while Stan said was "forest reserve". There has been a good deal of lumbering of the Burra pine and hoop pine (both Araucaria). We reached the main crest in an area per centred at bare of forest and turned northwest. We could look out equally to right of north to the hills of the coast or the hills of the interior. Soon we entered rainforest creeping more or less to the divide descended descended to the South Horn. This queer house was built by Mr. D. A. Russell, a former prominent citizen of Dalby, who owned several thousands acres of Burra & Willow. Then to his retire to here. (A little drinking fountain in stone is erected on the top to his memory.) The house is not occupied by Mr. & Mrs. Atheron (pronounced "aye-thorn"), who despite the bad road block if a telephone are trying to run it as hotel. I was given my pick of the rooms or I was told only just. After a really excellent dinner I started out westwardly the contingent. By the tail, found a camp occupied by Mrs. & Mrs. McClelland & daughter; not the local postman, Mr. J. Strang; found a W.A.C. camp (recently moved); & a little beyond the house of Mr. & Mrs. Stirling owners a very considerable property on Burra & clonura. Past beside their house is the little bungalow of Stan Parker & his wife. He has two children & also stay there are his mother & a young nephew from Brisbane, Rowan Campbell. Callan & Ted Richardson are the forest rangers from Lawn is located beyond the Stirling's place. I met Callan & the afternoon & Richardson this evening. Set out 25 more traps x 10 rat traps.

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Sun Jan. 18 Very busy. Last night shot two Ps. rubidus and two [illegible]. Trichosurus. The rubidus ♂ + ♀ were a mile apart, the ♀ with 2 functional nipples. The [illegible] were in the same tree & probably rather solitary. In the traps 2 Rattus assimilis + 8 mice, apparently of two species, though I'm uncertain. Don't know whether one of them is Rattus musculus. They are all rain forest rodents, though some have been taken to visiting the pig pen which is close to the edge of the woods but in the open. Staying till 3 o'clock then went out with Forester + Denis DeClemon + you Allan Stirling to the west end of the ridge through the park to see grass- trees there. Road very bad. There is a road to the "falls" (which are dry), & a side track to the "lucerne patch" (no lucerne) where the two forestry boys have their camps. On way back saw a 5-ft carpet snake (photo). Met Mr. Stirling on his way back from the Coralas. He is about 60. He, the forester & I went out night hunting in the evening. Shot a male [illegible] [illegible]; saw another + left him. Saw Rattus assimilis up in a shrub 6 feet from the ground. So evidently they are good climbers. Young Rowan brought me a bat just as I was setting my relaity traps. Will see later what they are. Got to bed just before midnight & the night before at 11.15 p.m. Told the rats of a nest. Mon Jan 19 A few miles in the traps. The four bats are either Pipistrellus or Eptesicus (the former, I think). Took quite a number of photographs in the afternoon - both eastern & black mobius. Most of the collecting & observing done is right on top of the range or down only slightly into the rainforest. The rainforest (here called "scrub") in many places crosses right over the top of the ridge from side to side. At other spots it is interrupted either by open Eucalyptus forest (here called "forest"), or by open grassy knolls or hummocks or meadows. I hope the color pictures will record the odd mosaic made by intermingling of the rain forest & eucalyptus areas - the dark green against the pig-pen.

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The open spaces look artificial & contain such weeds as thistles, while clay to roads thru the sand are imported settler's dock. The open spaces are nevertheless hundreds years old; however they may in part reflect old clearings or old burns. Any soil changes? [illegible] rock. Lots of birds are seen or heard, including red & blue, panato, barn bird, & the croak whip bird. The national park occupies the western end of the Banyao, privately owned land the center (when I came), and the forth reserves the southeastern end. The Banyao are an elevated portion of the dividing range. Departures 7 p.m.; 76°; 6 a.m. 60°; 3 p.m. 79° Tu. Jan. 20 Reached At Sterling's house a little before 8 a.m. to go with him, Richardson & Callam to a cave where bats were alleged to dwell. We found quite a party of would be cave seekers there. The Mac Clements & Mrs. Sterling was as well as also three children. The way led along one of the lateral crests of the main range, S.W. dipping at the tip very steeply down some 1500 feet to a ravine. A line of 30 ft limestone cliffs about 100 feet above the stream had been somewhat water etched to form shallow caves. The largest, a circular room some 10-12 feet in diameter formed the entrance of a low tunnel running back into the hill. There was at least a foot of dust (or perhaps much more) on the floor of the outer cave & continuing to the inner one. I entered the inner tunnel & squeezed 50, into the tunnel as far as I could crawl, but no bats appeared. I have not doubt they used to go there. But am equally certain that they have not been living in the cave for many months. On way back up spur saw "basaltic" cliffs to N.W. if we feeding an adjoining valley. The geology here seems to be quite involved. Excellent soil in clearings - red black earth - grows potatoes, beans, eggplants, strawberries, peaches, lettuce.

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Notes distinction of Loops pine & Banyas pine. The form has the leaves subaculeiform, only the middle 4 or so all around their stems. No letter are broadish, flattish, sharp tipped, when flat to the sky. Hop Pines appear dark- foliaged or grow down at the 2000 ft level. Banyas Pines have much paler Green, peculiar to me (see photo), & poor at the 3000 ft level. Rattus assimilis was trapped in empty home. Philip drove me and the forestry men out six miles through the park towards the grass trees and we hunted back from there for about 4 miles between 5 & 10 pm. Saw two Pseudocherius rubidus (1 st) and four Trichosurus (not collected). Moon half full. Two of the Trichosurus were mother child, the other isolated. Wed. Jan 2-1. After skiing went with Richardson, the forester, for a four hour walk through the Park, we took the turning down to the Fells (now virtually dry). Trails beautifully laid out upgraded - a triple narrow but excellently level & easy to walk on. What a pity the approach from Dally up the mountain is such a boulder! Saw twenty of joarmas, & the smaller "water joarmas". Sit higher down into the Loops pine country. Took lot of pictures. Down deposit of owl feet contacts (scattered) with the spread of the roots of a huge big tree (the cover all hotted away). Confirmed Rattus assimilis, and Pseudocherius rubidus. Saved some. Grown birds said to prefer blue flowers so. The male has various antics - lies on his back & kicks his legs. Nest in brush Only a few feet up of form. use same brown year after year (Stirling). "Fem" Wallaby may be the rare Mr. Joarma . Sunset 6.53 pm. Stringy trees may possess very large 4-8 ft at base. Resist cutting down by suckering from roots. Root easily, even, from short pieces, like stegan cane.

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1948 Thurs, Jan 22 Packed up & went down to Dally. Saw one swamp- wellby, P. brioa, 2 snakes, black with rings belly, one time hare. Fixed up affair in Dally, had lunch with Mrs. Timbour Thomas Jack. In the afternoon they drove me out to Ternift Creek. Creek to look for fossils. Found bits of Diplocodonts & tracegods in bed - seen in tanks. Heavily incrustated with lime. After tea Mrs. Jack gave me the fragment of mandible with the flat-crowned paired tooth in it; also a nearly complete mandible of a Diplocodont. Then he sent me a peculiar hollow horny bit tooth like specimen somewhat resembling a pterodactyl. What is it? All these from the bed of the Condamine River. Timbour Creek runs a few miles to the west of Dally, the "black earth". Vertical section 6 ft high shows few sandy lenses. Bed of creek, nearly dry, is full of limestone nodules & concretions. The creek feeds up in the Burdekin into. A possible source of lime - see bat-care district (p. ). Para-salt Creek at Tipton in Fort Hill (within few miles of Dally) if Burdekin mountains. (Photo of creek) Saw another cave. Fri, Jan 23 By train Dally back to Brisbane (5.20 am - 1 pm). Unpacked specimens at museum. Confirmed with Len Press. Tomorrow is half day only; Sunday & Monday (Australian Day) are holidays. Much to be done. Called in Mr. S. Conrad Peck. Sat Sun Mon 24 25 26 Busy reorganizing & at museum. Visited Longman again. Photographed museum specimens. Today was "Australian" Day - everything closed. Lev left at 1.15 pm for Cairns. Due to sleep at Townsville. Mack still away. Had new conference with C. T. White on itinerary, I telephoned H.G. Simmons, B.R. Jdns, Rockhampton. Tue, Jan 27 Application for registration (new laws). Special photo taken, work in museum. Photograph skulls etc.

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Wed. Jan Passport parts deposited; permit to be ready tomorrow. New box made 28. at mars. to contain camp gear. Photos. more fossil types. Thu. Jim Mack back from vacation'. Boyds slipped to Rock hampton. Checked 24. baggage to Sam (convergent shapes etc.). Trade quite a lot new photos. Left Brisbane at 9, p.m. Fri. Tom Sleipu until a little before Birdabey, then had breakfast, 30. The least proportion of the country northward from Birdabey is in light Eucalyptus forest. Corn fields (crops) are plentiful both sides of Birdabey. I noticed above level termite nests against many trees and bushes. Had as fellow traveler Mr. - friend, owner of department store in and President of the Board of Trade of Gladstone. Took one color picture near Rosedale (251 miles). To west all way north ranges of higher hills - mainly in Eucalyptus scrub but with a few pockets of dark green forest. (328) Went scrambled for breakfast & lunch at Birdabey as Gladstone Beyond Gladstone much finer. Quite high hills on east side of track near Yarwena (339 miles). Highest feature is Mt. Larcom. Mtns also reappear on west. Mt. Morgan dominates. A good sized river (about 360 m.) with narrow fringes of pine vegetation. A mixed plantation at Sisalana (in flower). (372 miles) The little quarry at Marner (370 m) where Logan received fossil fragments. (the Buzerkeras) Considerable hills on peninsula east of Rock hampton. H.S.(1909) Rockhampton On arrival got in touch with Mr. Simmons, Curator of Bot. from Criterion Hotel (also found for 18/-). He introduced me to "politician" of local vintage. Later the Hotel mgr., Mr. Smith presented me to Dr. Leeds. Plans still in settlement want to visit localities of 1909, interest lost today is Friday - a bad day due to coming weekend.

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Jan. 31. Mr. Simmons turned up tempo. He took me to call upon various people, beginning with the mayor, Mrs. H.A. Jeffries; Mr. F. Tardine, Headmaster of the Rockhampton boys grammar school, Mr. Town clerk [illegible] alderman; [illegible] and Mr. F. M. Allen, store-merchant who owns a quarry at Gracemere (where he claims there are "kangaroo rats" (meaning Aggrypnum?)) We are also tracking down two naturalist brothers named Vallis:- E.C. Vallis (entomology), Berserker St., R. and R.E. Vallis (Mammals), Stanford St., R. The latter is for the moment at Yeppoon, wither we go tomorrow on the way to Byfield. In the afternoon we drove at a dozen miles along the "wester- nord" and turned off S.W. 2 miles about to Mr. Allen's quarry at Stanwell. I took along my hammock [illegible] the night then as I wanted both to pick up my traps very early and to do some night hunting. We walked up to the quarry. I set 15 minitrops and 5 sat traps there. Signs (durphip) of rock wallabies were plentiful over and under the piles of loose "carboniferous" sandstone. But when I walked up there that night I saw no trace of them. The quarry has been abandoned for many years and quite thick young trees have grown up between the railroad ties. "Rosewood" (Eucalyptus sp.) is common there. The area as a whole is quite wild but absolutely dry at present. Two traps in the creek bed by camps produced nothing. A slight scent from some of the quarry traps. Mr. Allen told me two old "battlers" who lived near them, interested respectively in gardening and alcohol. They quarrelled all the time. One used to eat the wildly carcasses Allen shot. Sun. Feb. 12. Had a queer night's lay at S.15- to collect the traps. Simmons came at 7. Had bad cake & water for supper & breakfast. Simmons took me back to the Post Office in Belfast (Sect.) & to sleep my mare. The quarry was in Eucalyptus country - very dry weather very. A track of the land near Rockhampton is dried up towards. Some old oak trees - perhaps parts of the Dittony River.

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We set out for Yeperon and Byfield. The latter is noted for the "Byfield fern" (a cycad), and is type locality for one of Troyte's mice. Yeperon is in the coast; (photo) of island off one (SE). Picked up Allen who is much interested in rat hist. (all phases). Road through eucalypt scrub - bloodwood trees all in creamy bloom, also a cream-yellow wattles. Whitish banks of the "scented gum" (Eucalyptus). At Yeperon picked up Ted Freeland (prominent "freeland"). Former resident at Byfield who has recently moved out to Cyril Darwin. We then headed out Bot Vallis (the naturalist). I annoyed to meet him in Rockh. Cata. Road Yeperon to Byfield starts along cliffy coast but soon turns inland. After 10 miles wood change. Breeze dinner. Dark-foliaged "Turpentine trees" appear. "Stinky-bark" 8km west. At dry creek the Byfield fern, "Rocky Creek," 5 miles S. of Byfield permanent drinking. Palms. Caperas. Fijis. Two species in Barbarea (trilliums). Byfield Reached Byfield at 3.20. Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Freeland there at home. Also a lot of their relatives & the young man to whom they are selling their citrus property. Wid. in 2 1/2 miles to a deep creek (the bottom of which is formed by tertiary lignites (in which Major Troyte is interested). Ford so better collect. Please 50 returns to Byfield. Jan. 5.20 to 6.30 set out 30 more traps. Jackybird cords fall while flying foxes feeding on bloodwood flowers. Stot up. Stapelatus. Tired. Monday 26.2.2 One Rattlesnake in traps. Early morning temperature 72° (6 a.m.). Heavy dew. Chilly. Six sets of traps today. Took series of photos, both black & white and color. Three lizards in traps (photo). Auto compulsory. Traps in Water Park Creek for flying foxes. Thin palms, some large cane (not bad). Two cycads (including the Byfield fern). Many Ste-octas in dry land was. Many Kotakobuses.

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1948. At night shot another Oligopus scapulatus and a grey possum, Trichosurus, with fore legs & with the tail far less haired than that of the Benja Mountains. Tues. Night much warmer - 75° and increasing humidity + Feb.3. cloudiness. In morning cloudy & threatening. Rain began while I was out at trap line. I decided with the change of weather to pick up all traps. Found a large male Hydromys in one of the water sets along Water Park Creek. Nothing else but a couple of skinks. Spent all morning at Skimming. Simmons due in afternoon. Simmons arrived at 3.30 p.m., we were back in Rockhampton by 6 p.m. After supper went up to the gardens for the evening. The railroad strikes (all Queensland) is on. Don't know what may become of my projected travels yet. Wed. W. Vaughan, Kodak, Rockhampton Feb.4 " Harris " Townsville . Set the trays of specimens out to dry at the Botanic Gardens. Did other chores. The railroad strikes threatens to cripple my style quite badly. Am to meet local naturalist R.E. Vallis this afternoon for tea as he suggests. Met Vallis in afternoon & arranged with him to go out to a valley in th Beresken Range, east of Rockhampton, on Wednesday, Thursday. Wrote to Sipp. Thur. We set out for the Beresken almost at noon. Feb.5 It was not far. Simmons came along in his car too. We set up camp in the valley bottom by Brewers Broken Creek. The creek was rocky & filled by stones and hills. One day except for a teacup-sized hole in its basalt (or slate, ?) at which every warp, ber, & fly in the region was falling himself. The creeks before day up had proved as feeding places for countless mosquitoes. Black, high-powered insects that came at us even in hot daylight. Then we went up to set traps in the p.m. Between us we set about 50 traps, which next day resulted only in a couple of birds.

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Friday Feb.6. That evening, beside the creek black magpius we were visited by a few my large pale gray warty with white marks. Later I put in the ledbelly and was wrecked to the top of the hills but saw only, thp I did hear. (I a wallaby). Vallis has a tame one known - the P. dorsalis. The lack of grasses in the dry areas is really striking. It looks as though they almost died out, perhaps bleeding up again after the rains (which are now overdue). The fire hazard in Brewers creek was very real. Many further dry lanterns were everywhere. We built our fire in the green bed among the stones. The lot: The total failure of the traps embried with Vallis' description of another locality with permanent water, induced me to clear out of Brewers Creek at once. We packed up and went back to Vallis's, intending to make a very early start next morning. The strike sees say bat. Feb.7. We were joined by "Close" Vallis on our trip to the "Sepentria", 5 miles north of Gut Hedbow about 30 miles northwest of Rockhampton. "Step" is one of a fine series of ox bows, dug out quite deep - to 8 feet - but closed off at intervals. These arise in the coastal hills & flows east into the Fitzroy river. On the way out passed a stella dead nearly decomposed Aepypterus. Vallis says P. dorsalis is commonest wallaby, but the whip tail and the swamp wallaby occurs, (as does the pure grey kangaroo). Along the "Bugs" cattle, blue water lilies; Kaye then, "black" ducks; Black swans (3) seen. Close caught a catfish & a tortoise with horn r kins. A swampy ruined by cattle. Dorsalis wallabies seen on low "hill", much turn-up my barley in wood. Fair front on "hill". Plenty of dust and 2 kinds of stalks eaten by them. That night we hunted. Two wallaby (dorsalis), 1 red tail (Lenifurine), 1 Schorinotale (brown), 1 Thistoumns; 1? Locus | Hydromp, 1 Mus(?).

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The Pseudoveternis had a well dev. y. in porch. Have sand skulls so search can be made for dp 4. Sun. Feb. 8. A storm of wind rain greeted us at 6 a.m. - tasted till about 10 o'clock. Terrible ordered; lost keys, but found them again after hrs. search. Shining six mammals - what a peculiar and honifying stretch the Schorinolatis gives off! Back in the p.m. Left camp at 1:30 in Patt Vallis' old model T & reached "Rocky" at 4 o'clock. Tom rain threatening. The section is changing at last. Drove every day to Simmons' house by the "Sardine" & opened them up to dry. Goust work on them tomis. Closey regretted we found no land-crofts. Said they were two species, also said that the Phalangium spinulosum, australis, principes, acutati, can only be seen at blossom trees. There were some (I suppose) with the fact that birdwoods were in flora at Dryfield). Mon. Feb. 9. Spent day cleaning skulls & putting finishing touches on skins. Arranged tentatively to go out to Mt Etna (10 min.) to limestone caves after bats. RR strike now complete. Weather showy. Temperature cool. Tue. Feb. 10 With Simmons & Vallis drove to Olsen's Cave, Mt Etra, about 10 miles north of Rockhampton. An extensive series of caverns dissolved in the limestone - stairs + bridges built in. Olsen was away. Collected a number of Rhinochelys, the aberrant bat and signs of Taptozous and a vesputilinid - perhaps Scotenines ? Stewed under Simmons' house that evening. Saw from tree - snake. Weather neither wet. Wed Feb. 11 Heavy rains. Put finishing touches on Olsen's cave bats. Stocks getting worse; pick-up of every bus transportation. Possibly going out after the work-at described by Longman from "Epping Forest", 60 miles from Clermont. But don't want to get marooned there.

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Show trade reservation by ANA to fly to Townsville next Tuesday. No sign of strike ending. Taking part y. boggys by air - rest by trains when they run again. Put traps out in Botanic Gardens but took only the house mmm. No rats. Some burrowers said to be about. Photographed grey penguin & whiptail at 200 - also emus and "actinie cypariss" or brogla. Sat Dec. 14. Tardrie, 4. Physiology of the Fitzroy Basin. Roy. Soc. Soc. Queensl., about 1923-1924. He gave me several other of his papers. Simmons conducted us all through the botanical gardens. Talked to man from Wyndham (100 mi.s), on Fitzroy River of north Western Australia. He records (he thinks accurately) a pest plague of rats which "came from the south" in April, 1984, followed by a plague of feral cats. This was at the end of the rainy season. Sun Dec. 15. A very big day at Mt. Etta. First went in to Pilkington's Cave with his foreman and Port Vallis. Had to descend 20 feet y. rope & series of other difficult descents. Found Pipistrellus-like bats clustered in squeaking pimp in hollow like inverted cup in ceiling. Shot one separately. Other bats flying about but no shot possible. Inside from 11 to 12. Moved to other cave, Johanson's Cave. Then found Macroderma pjas - small entry if perhaps 20. they hang up in groups of 2 or 3 - not very close together forever. Carry shot. Considerable local masses of fresh guano - strong smell of ammonia. BB picked up Lygos lizard - nana, powdered head. I found skull of rock wallaby in T. Cave. Patt picks up lower jaws of ? podymelus. Preparations of 20 Pipistrellus & 7 Macroderma to finish 11 o'clock at night. Mon. Dec Busy all day packing, pretty finishing touches on specimens, cleaning 16 skulls, annoying details of air trip etc.

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Tud. Book £10,000 extra life insurance for £1-1-8 & Bad letter 17. to Brans making him my "legal representative". Plan left at 8.30 Reached Mackay about 10, Bowen about Towns- 11 & Townsville about 12 noon. The eucalyptus of the vill. vegetation persisted all the way, except where man had intervened to plant pastures or sugar cane. At Mackay, for example, eucalyptus was a sea of green cane. The famous Bundaberg Rain was quite low. There were many lovely flowers visible inland, but seaward, when for the most part on flood, was usually pretty barren. No bad beings. At Townsville settled at Queens Hotel, a pleasant 120-room job looking out on the sea. Found a letter from Keith Kennedy asking me to call him 3 + 3.30. Delphoid Simmons, friend Pat Andrews Curator of Botanic Gardens, who gave me names of several people who might help. One was Pat T. Robinson, proprietor of a butcher business, who had a private zoo a few miles out. Another was Dr. T. Preind, a medical man. Had my interview with Kennedy, whose interest is anthropology, we decided to eder M. Crewe in depth of Public Education regarding space for my Specimens to dry out. The building when he is is Close to the hotel very convenient. I got a taxi & recovered my baggage from the ANA Office & opened up the Specimen trays packed new formats mixtures to the lads. Great relief to my mind! Wed. 28. Very busy trying to arrange trip out of Town. K. Kennedy took 18. me to top of Castle Hill 925 feet where I saw a selecting fine inviting land scape. 4 p.m. Pat Andrews drove me to his d.E & back with "Carmen", whom met Comm. Warden Mr. Joger. Finally settled on Saddle into for first trip with Pat Speck & follows. Thu. Feb. The man Davies, who was to take me out came with 19. the most chipped pot of old Chocolate. It got in there all

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right. The way went SE across the Allijah & Creed's Creeks, around the seaward end of Saddle Mountain, eastern slope of Mt Ellair as alongside the RR to Cromarty water stop. A couple of Mt Ellair local streams were met. Arrived at home of Tom & Mrs Morrison, care growers. Nearly is home Mr. & Mrs Means in whom I called, as they Cromarty owned a patch of free scrub in which I wanted that tape. The green scrub very irregularity but cut so then. Also put out in care, oily ledgers, in cord pillars. Rygin said to the my barn. A few drips. Seen several wallabies on istated hill across swamp. St Mary's Creek very low but running. Tried jacking. Poor luck due partly to lack of trail & fly jars. Saw two Tetracorns. Two Phosphorus killed with torch in bedroom. Fri. 24. Snap yielded frogs - 2 males, chick an adult 20 house mice. Shrewed bat, mouse. Photographed. Ran up valley to call on Bardsirks (father & his brother & son). Not much prospect then, Native cats very rare. Bardsirks - but try to get them! Sat. 26. 21. Davies came in his ancient "utility" about 10 a.m. Nothing but a lizard (skink) in any trap. Picked all up, packed goods back to Townsville to get ready for trip to give a Speech on Sunday. Found a wired from Brass: the "Pardulia" with our travelling baggage on board will not reach Cairns before the 7th March, or she has wired Geoff to fly if necessary. Strike news still very bad. The Railway men are now trying to stop oil deliveries. Sun. 26. The Mt Speck two left promptly at 9 a.m. We reached in the guest house at the top, 3900 feet about 11.30. Mt Speck is merely a part of the granite scarp locally known as the Mt. Speck, Pelunual Rays. The trail leads WNW parallel to the railroad for 1½ miles - just barely 40 mile, then it turns abruptly SW and climbs the face of the scarp. The first half

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If the trip is well away from the mountains though much low swampy pond, traversed by frequent creeks, at least one of which is tidal. The vegetation is well eucalypt scrub - layer at streams. The cloud belt today start at about 2500 feet & showers fell at Mt. Speight about 1 pm. They've had much cloudy weather & one rain lately. The trail winds up & in some forests the much finer forest - trop pine, silky oak, she-oaks. At 1000 feet it crosses Crystal Creek falls (photo). A certain amount of logging is going on at high levels. He is a small community with a post office & one store. The P.O. is called Paluma. Saw a live chigo in road ahead of the bus in the lowlands. He stood trip on his toes with tail well up & only moved a little out of our way as we passed. Dorsetial rain later. Leeches, pink-purple, abundant; also a small blackish one. Mon. Feb. 23 Heavy rain during night. Quite a number of Rettina arnoldi in the area, including worms and post-feeding females. Two or three partly eaten (putrps by daugures or ferel cats.) One last trap in creek bed taken away. Mr. Cawil, who runs the Guest House, has been a poacher hunter. They used to make their baits of "pollard" (softest) with additions of oils of anise and eucalyptus & just cyanide in it. The baits were put on the ground. He says water rats and a large rat with white tail tip (possibly Uromys) occurs. There is a skin of Dasymus gracilis in the p. office. Cawil has a photo of another he killed in his chicken house. They call it "tija cat". Also at the p.o. is a skin of a baby platypus & a half from live Trichosurus, yellow-belly Bennett, with ears rather pale. The found is good vine scrub full of lawyer cans & on hillside which for the most part are very steep. The rock is graniteoid. There is a little place the stream in its creeks. Drainage is virtually all western (Little Baskett tributaries). Storms during the morning. Everything very damp & musty. (Report: no rain in Townsville). Cawil says this fern scrub extends only a dozen miles to the south and, four miles or so inland, changes back to

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to eucalypt forest which continues as one the main divide. Heavy rain all afternoon. Reheating at 5 o'clock I believe I saw Hypsiprymnodon. Saw it only indistinctly. It was rat-sized & slightly hopping in gait but going directly away. It seemed to be in any the flaring roots of an old forest tree. Rain all night. Saw small animal run from near waste-food dump behind guest home (old cans etc). It may have been a Trichosurus but according to Cevil was more likely a native cat. Caught two of the little "scrub turkeys". They are red-headed & look for all the world like fledgled bantams. Both were in steel traps set for the Dasymys near the dump. Cevil says they are chicks; the adults, becoming as large as a hen. Fry Feb 24 Rain most of night. Dendrolagus assimilis in traps, including 3 juveniles. This set is unquestionably extremely common in the scrub. Surprised to get no Delomys. A small tick about. Picked up some traps Went out with hunting lamps. Very little moving. Much mist in forest. Shot a nightail. Wed Feb. 25 Only R. assimilis in traps. The ten concentrated yesterday around the place where I saw the Hypsiprymnodon (?) couple nothing. First free day. Took photos. Bus took me down in afternoon. Reached Tweed 6 p.m. Booked seat on a Qantas plane for Cairns tomorrow night. Thu Feb. 26 Packed specimen which had left with Cees. Got ready for evening plane. Took L. insurance. Saw Keith Kennedy again. Stapled in at a.m. Plane late but reached Cairns at 10.45 p.m. Found Garry, Van & Lin at Airport. All well. The two former had arrived the night before from Sydney; for this day before then. My "reconnaissance" close at midnight + I shall leave "Archbold expedition" tomorrow.

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Thi Feb. Wca. continues fair. Last night flew at 10,000 feet 27. over a big storm south of Innis' falls. Mr. Gilbert Bates with entomologist Tom Burdett drove us up the range & behind the Miranda Falls (whilst the road does not reach) to visit an experimental sugar plot. Rock at 1.30. In from put out stains to bulbs in B.P.'s warehouse. In Ewing (5 o'clock) met Mr. Gallup (Main Roads Comm.) for drinks & at 8 pm attended meeting of Cairns Orchid Society. Sat, Feb. The Cairns Nat. Hist. Soc. took us up to Atherton Tablelands. 28. Members of the party; Len, Van, myself: Ernie Gordon Stephens, George Bates, Tom Wells. We breakfasted at Kuranda then drove via Mareeba to Gyorgobure only 4 miles from the isolated rain scull of Lake Eacham, where we booked rooms & left our luggage. Then we went east to slope south of Battle Creek overlooking the sea (distant) when Len searched for a special type of vine. Had luck in the "bush". Van hunter spidus battles. Return to Eacham at 4 pm. There Van & I set traps along Wrights Creek near the lake. That night Van & I were out in Eacham sent with Kent Limp. I shot 2 Pseudorheinus arcteri & a Thelyole stigraticus. Sun. Feb. 29 Next morning steaming till 11 a.m. Cara left cabin but George Bates returned for me & Van. We lunched in the bush near Lake Eacham. Supper at Kuranda. Home about 8 pm. Main impression is the very restricted area of the rain scull, the great variety of deforestation of the tablelands to make dairying corn country; the abundance of eucalyptus "fruit". (On Safety) Mon. Tues. Thurs. Arranged fateful with Main Roads Commission to drive up to Chillagoe caves after date. Moved our collected material to new quarters (Mrs. Ames) & spread them out. Went with Ernie Stevens to see of big fox camps.

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(10.15) Lord. Heavy rain. We left at 7.30; passed thyl Atherton & behind Mr. 3. Van Duren, to J.H. Bapen (Rods). I continued. Mr. T.T. Abbott, no peti ; Mr. Brown driver, with me. Bad weather until beyond Herberton (The Huhur R. in flood). Then gradual clearing. A few creeks with but little water: The Shis Creek around 3-4 tons; Drumgabark Ties. Next Emma Creek. Finally, close to Alman-dan, Crooked Creek. We were pretty battered by atrocious roads. Average 18 m.p.h. & arrived at 5 pm (left Cairns at 7.30 a.m.), & so spent the night at the "Secret House" ("Aliris House"). Seemed at the "pub" of one or two extra carco & mine shafts. On road saw: I gum smoke; 1 scrub turkey, 1 dingo. The dingo was somewhat darker on the back than the one I saw on the way to Mt Spec. It had rather massive jaws and the tail up-curled. Pets: reported doubtful at Chillagoe (Mr. Shepherd) some at Burnjane Creek (Albert Shaw) plenty at Tommy Bano Drive, Taffa Tatts. Some at Vileum Drive, Irvine bank. The way was hilly throughout - then spotted massive seam Herberton. Saw several neat flowering shrubs. Luckily a Hibiscus with white flowers delicately tinted with pink, it bears 5-6 petals. Drain ball in log rich-sided fulling. Some cliffs appear on both sides well back from the road at about 3/4 from east of Alman-dan. No picture. Young man, teacher is 1-room school, has 21 pupils aged 5-16 years. Then Sleep shown at night at Alma-dan. Breakfast at 7. away before Mar. 4. 8 - reached Chillagoe at 9 am. Found Shepherd who was with us all day. Set out to the Kimberley, leaving the granite, some 5 miles from Alman-dan. It's gradually took over from granite just as empty rock with thick beds dipping a few degrees SE & E as high shattered masses rising above the joint level of the road for a hundred feet or so. Chillagoe village is a pretty locality. There are bij

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Sometiig funerous there in which the peradji line is used on our sent in from elsewhere. Black cockatoos (18) fly up. Photo of finest bluff. We were in Chillagoe cave for about an hour. It is a complicated cavern, not art, in which 3 men were once lost for 3 days. A few roof collapses, no doubt used by bats, occur. Mr. Stefford who acts as custodian knows it well. He regretted we used no carbide lamps, which would have illuminated the beauties of the cave better than our spotlights. There was only one species in the cave, to judge from the fruits of several sorts — a Driopterma, we put out about 11.45 and walked a few hundred yards to Darby Cave, a much smaller cavern and wholly bat-less. Then we drove the couple of miles back to Chillagoe for lunch at the hotel. In the afternoon we tried the Madonna cave (in another block of limestone). We saw two wallaroos — by reddish sandy fellows which made no bones about leaping up the massive flat-topped limestone to vanish over the top of its deep. The Madonna proved not to be quite called empty — at least there were no bats in it. Then there we drove 2 miles back along the Alma-dun road to Pink Cave. This was my moderate large and not complex. I saw a tiny group of 3 Scotiades without being sure they were bats at all. (I also saw a couple of patches of fungus). On the way out I picked up three fried Taphozones simply. It had not retired them at all. (sign in). White cockatoos on the way back to Alma-dun which we reached at 6 p.m. At the cave (not seen) "Tank Cave" and at Mungana 11 miles beyond Chillagoe other bat caves are said to exist. Fri. 28th Another very busy day. Left Alma-dun at 7.30 went to Tapps Junction (R.R.) where we drove in a round-about way southward for about 5 miles to Betty Burns Mine, an abandoned tunnel. I had used my last dust-blot cartridge (plane to R.R. strike) the day before I had one, 410 loaded with #8 A.T. This was really

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far too lays for small bats. In any case not a bat hung up when I could see it to shut at sit, they plenty were flyig in the tunnel. We got sticks & knocked down 9- all alive & apparently Scoterius of a species larger than any there of the day before. Outside, soon spotted another red wallaroo bounding away. From Tom Bano we diverted to the town of Divine Banks - a quite important tin-mining center. We were intending to visit the Vulcan Mine. However, the Volcan, we were told had no tunnel but went down 1500 feet. So we saw that one up. We met an old miner who said "Bets! - Why there's bats in my tunnel? You can take them in your hand. We went with him, armed with forked sticks. He lit his carbide lamp - we went in. At about 200 feet he said "Healthy are". I could not use my stick in the confined space so I tried grabbing them or got all three of the cluster. They were Litho, Pipistrellus or Scoterius. In his pocket were "The Que" were Rhinolophus. I was able to seize two of them in the same way. Curtin was pretty mad but he managed to go to one more abandoned tunnel, while there seem to be scores, when we again took 4 Rhinolophus + 1 Pipistrellus. It rained to drizzle. We loaded locks east & for safety across all creeks. Reached Halletta after most shops had closed (at 5.15) but bought some tinned food & 3 loaves of bread. Then on in the mist & rain down the road leading to, Rainbow, but turned off on after Dennis fall road (all bitumen roads). Finally we turned again into the road "under construction" where Van had been taken 3 days earlier to the camp of the Main Roads Commission. We arrived by after dark between 7.30 & 8. Van reported terrific rain all the time he has been at the road construction camp at Walton Hill Range. They had had 20 inches of rain in 3 days. He had so far taken a Urohyops & several Rattus asiaticus, most of the camp people were away for the week end, so he was starting to camp alone. He had not actually had to fix a meal yet however.

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Red Island - Forrest Area. Types Locality. Spiny Anteater, Tachy glossus aculeatus acanthion marsupial Mouse, Antechinus (possibly 2 spp). ? Flat shelled marsup. Mmns. Planigale ? Phascolale } Phascolale topotefa "Bushy-tailed Rat " Smintoposis Smintoposis aruensis ?? Little Native Cat, Batanellus hallucatus predator Utinga (Kemp) Strit headed Bandicoot, V. spodon penmaulae Layer " " a macrocerus ? Bandicooted " Peramele nasuta pellucens ?? Darwin Loe (Stearn) Neotemina " Echimypten ? Rosety Sout. Pigmy Glider Acrobates p. frontalis ??? Herbert R. Pigmy Possum Eudromicia macrura ?? Atherton Yellow bellied Glider Petaurus australis reginar ??? Berdakay. Spurul glider " norfolensis pacificus ??? Cardwell Sugar glider " brevicauda canadat ? Dactylopsila Dactylopsila picata Fossilbary, Stuped Possum Pseudo dermus peropinum ?? Cottam Roofed " " lubetensis ??? Herbert R. " " lemeroides ??? Atherton T. " " ancteri ??? Slat Hlyig Phal. Thomonotalis minor ??? Herbert Vale Brush-tail Possum Trichosurus vulpecula cuneus ?? Glen Creek, Cape York Phalanger, Spotted Phalanger maculatus nudicaudatus " " orientalis Dendrolagus hemithianus ??? Cook Town [illegible] Coleman Mitchell R.S.

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Gazella Wallaby. Doreopses ??? New Guinea. South Wallaby. Thylipala stipatricus coxeni Pat Albany. (Coxen) Sand " Psestomys agilis jardini Cape York (Broadbent) Whiptail. " pangi ?? Pt Stephens Weta Rat. Hydromys "Springland" rat. Rattus culmorum race ? Cape York Spring Rat. Rattus leucopus Cape York. Noma. Lygodia ??? "Rabbit Rat" (Cobalt) Psestomys graddii rattoides ?? Cockatoo Whiptail Rabbit Rat. Cricetulus juncicollis race. Kangaroo rat. Notomys aquilo ? Cape York (Cockatoo). Grear Rat. Uromys cardinaculatus Pat Albany. Dika-tula rats. Melomys australis Piara, 2½ mile WNW from Forest "Soudo" flying fox. Pteropus graddii Rockhampton Spectacled " . " crepiscillulus Fitzroy Isl. Little " . " S capulatus ? Cape York Aye-aye bat. Nyctinomus papuensis N. Seiria. Lupan... " . " Ristromi ? Cockatoo Odontos mycteris two species. Trecopetinus Phylophtops ?? N.S.W. Phinomycter amentaceus ?? Port Essington Hippidium acorni ? Cockatoo " . " Cwomis " . " Valborensis " . " Diadema race

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Large bats Nyctophilus g. pallidus. ?? Alexandria 0 " " by far Torre St. Isla Pipistrells Pipistrellus atrum ? Little pipistrel bat. ✓ Chalinolobus gouldii n.n ? Broad nosed bats ✓ Scotomis sp. Innex ear " ✓ Myotis (Lucerne) macrurus ?? " " " australis ? ?? Phoniscus papuensis ??? Emballonura ✓ Miniopterus sp. ? Toothless ✓ T. australis Albany Isle. Baccoloma S. sp. ?? Bulldog bat Nyctinomus moriofkenis ?? Chaerops . Sheatle bat ??

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Went out picking for an hour & shot a smoky jay Pseudotetrnus Sat. Mar. 6. In the morning the rain had stopped. The camp was located in a sea of mud where bulldozers had churned up the country side. went out with Van to see his traps. He got 4 Rattus and a Uromys. Some photo. A couple of hours of sunshine. Set out that night jacking up the road. Saw bats & 2 flying foxes. Shot a Chatterer (3). With the light saw 2 drops too far to hit. Shot one other Pseudotetrnus pertbertensis. Am persuaded this scrub is relatively empty. Perhaps the bulldozers & blasting have frightened away the game. Van shot a first black cat as a Perameles. Sun. Mar. 7. In traps (Van's) 4 Rattus anisimilis, 1 Uromys Cardina coelatus. No traces of Hypsepyrnodon. The road building people obviously don't know it, yet many Raven for two not far from here. The trouble is that we know nothing of its habits. again We dejar Van went out for a couple of hours. He shot a possum but could not find it. Mon. Mar. 8. Packed up & left for Millaa Millaa where Harold Moon, my driver to Chillagoe was to meet us between 12-1. Met various people there. Snow Baker had met a man who as a boy worked for Hardy Raven & others reverentud him. An American from the mining area told me that our expedition is reputed to have hidden motives; we are looking for Uranium or something. We descended by the one-way highway (3.30 to 5) to Sadovale. The cloud forest just way at 1500-1800 feet to eucalypts, he-sakes, cycads, umbrella trees, etc. we visited Lake Barin's - rather commercialised but otherwise much like Lake Eacham. Also saw the big "pine", Agathis , 27 feet in girth. Reached Cairns about 5:30 pm. Tu. Mar. 9 Setting species in shape; out putting Gyp & Van for trips to Proserna. Saw talk by the Cairns Naturalists Club entitled "Ceratophyllum S. Ana, Compounds".

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Wed. Mar 10. Tea at Ernie Stevens' home, 3 p.m. accompanied Mrs. Laurie, electrical engineer to Kuranda power station, We hunted bat in tunnel for the 3-foot power pipes. Two species very nervous hard to get: Phrolophus and Scoterinus? Took 2 y. each. Left Van to Mossman by bus Thursday a.m. That night I skinned the 4 bat. George Prothero bought an Isoodon, a car had killed at 8 p.m. Injected it with formalin for a.m. skinning. Fri. Mar 12. Skinned the bandicoot. My long looked-for tour airout for Townsville. Sat half to Van at Mossman. (We have been unravelling rope - a tedious process - to get Tow.) Talk before Cairns Legacy in Evening on "Exploring + Expeditions". Sat. Mar 13. A trip with Mrs. & Mrs. Hunter to Basin water in p.m. Busy in a.m. reorganising gear in Mrs. & fully ready for Scent Friday trip. Sun. Mar 14. Packed picked bat in a.m. Left to lunch with Mrs. Ernie Stevens & in p.m. to test car at Hartleys Creek, 25 miles up to coast towards Mossman. The bats were cut 2 - scatland - in a 30cc car in a fissure in the juncture (with Taptasous). Mon. Mar. 15. With Abba & Main Roads to Mossman via Port Douglas. Lunched at Mossman. Changed to "utility" driven by Mr. Davies. First camp when lowland "four" changes to scrub at 700 feet. "Lookout" at about "Top" at 1400. Thereafter fairly level. Scrub lasts about a mile, then Devil Devil Creek, a headwaters creek of the Mitchell. Stayed with Mr. & Mrs. Hanna, dairy farmers. They claim Hyperpylymorder on their property - at mayis 2 3 c.m. Davies took me all around the uplands (Layamto to west brown) - to Rummula - Miss & her friend from Parkarren. - to Juletten - to see salt

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I flyig fox camp & back by cartan road thlugh "jount". Saw half breed, Paddy Groves, kangaroo hunter. He says there are freed foxes (not reds) & 2 sorts of wallabies. He knew Hypsi pygmodon. Set a dozen traps in trail in scrub. After supper tried trip "jackie" but rain spoiled it—quite heavy rain. Took a Hypsipygmodon in hand. It hung up under bedsprig in my room. I palled it by hand. Tue. 16. Found an Antechinus and a Rattus (possibly coronatus) in my 11 traps. Walked out with Paddy but saw no trace of Hypsi pygmodon. A grove (natural) of fan palms opposite throwing good shade. This is included to be "melanole" county. Hills a foot deep are dotted all through the scrub! These floors with the four has been cleared constitute a certain danger for cattle. Went "jackie" with Paddy, a half breed. He took me into some old tinta tracks. Heard the animal, but saw no eyes at all. Paddy hought one Rhinopodus from the mice he looks in. Wed. 17 4 traps they are set. Went to flyig fox camp— Pteropus conspicillatus. Shot five. Called on Miss Salisbury, who had one up for me. Pickled same. Stemming all afternoon. Dole Cape wallaby joanna; I kept the little one. A whitish-grey tree frog in Miss Salisbury's milk can. Rebaited at 6.15 pm., while going Phil Hanna hunted Hypsi pygmodon with his .410. He said he saw one. That night he & I hented with lights to the top of the Proseran Table—a round trip of 5 miles. Saw only a 7-ft carpet snake—about 3 yards, it was curled there when we returned. Thur. Mar. 18. Frosted in traps. Visits fun. Retation (the knees Dinlayers) & Keridge, both of Milanda. Also Sid Balls & friends from Cairns.

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In pm rebaited ad near end of track in heavy scrub saw trot a & Hypsiprymnodon. Just 5 pm. Pouch contained 4 manas, but only th antenn pair had been functionl. Furth hunting lost no more. Specim packed with round worms (one saved). Stomach distended with crushed-up vegetable matter - apparently starchy - berries r.e. Fri. Mar. 19 Two more Rattus. Saw another Hypsi streak across forest trail. Too quick for me. Back in Cairns in pm.; Jack Davi's took me down to Mosman, & I rode in with the Cullen at 4.30. Opened up boma that eveny. The boys were back half an hour ahead of me. Sat. Mar. 20 General reorg early i a.m. Left taken by Gil Belts south along the coast road to see Bell's Peak, Moore's Gordwale. We drove on to the home of W. Burns, who has climbed Mt Bellenden Ker 7 times. Optimised took dirt road in from Gordwale to base of Bell's Peak (due not Mr Thomson, jurymena of large cane property, Buzzardott, His son-in-law has been to the top of Bell's Peak. (3300 ft). Sun. Van + I with Genge Brothers & his family on a long Mon. 21 morn run to Tully Falls. Went via Keerende, Atherton, Ramada. Tried for fruit bat on "Old Ravenshoe road" but they had moved. Picked up Thysanus conspicillibus (yoyon) on N. Cairns road, Euphygnum at Evelyn, and Tricholoma at Creek. The Tully Falls were lovely - not too full but very impressive. Returned via Millaa Millaa and Innisfail, Mon. 22 with Ernie Storms up the Kuranda Range to see R. Peter Veivers, brother of George Veivers. The owns farm near Sanyang Creek where "stupid etc." supposed to occur. Found him at Mylta sragging out lop with bullocks. He knew a

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At about the Coen district - Peach River + Rocky Creek. After lunch at Renardo went to north of Dravida PS to Clookey River - Ernia to inspect farm. Heard of coup d'etat flying forces near by. Shop & d. Add O. Corpse- [illegible]. Van meanwhile last jethunt up 7 Nyctinomis from roof of house in Cairns, and al. (Cont). Fri. Mar. 26. With the Stevens bros (and Mrs E. Stevens) up Renards range 9 m. to Speedwell property on the upper Clookey River (8½ miles due west) Cairns. On a nearly tributary, the Sanyang Creek the fabulous "striped type car" is reputed to occur. The location very attractive - an old house with billy sembs to S×E - tending to open flood on × w. Afternoon Van set traps, while one of the back sons of the home showed me the way to Sanyang. Over there a nice forest in which bushfire "people" has been done 3 years ago by Martin Buller. Hunt at dusk - n.g. Sat. Mar. 27. Cairns folk went back (Ernia & his wife had wanted to go cubing but a leak in their radios stopped them). In the afternoon. Traps set by Van produced Tettalus, Lepus, Cortechmus. [illegible] Hyperpyrrhodon is here. Saw two Hyperpyrrhodon run across the track between 5 & 6 o'clock. Sets made with Star traps for spotted cats & civets(?). Sun. Mar. 28. Nothing in my traps. Van fed some mice. Mon. Mar. 29. Something sprung by pig or casowary? or possibly dingo. Saw slippage of 2 small Hyperpyrrhodon. Van first record species of bat - seemingly The New Guinea Sternops. Sight of a skins of T. stigmatis and Dactyllopsis, Ernie Stevens took us down to Cairns i. p. m.

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Tu. Mar. 30. 2 a.m. setty but specials to dry - George Parker brought us a Hipposideros diadema syrius th ewer's before. Thu ap. 1. Moved out in the afternoon to the eastern for of Bellenden Ken. The exact locality is a cypress area on the north side of Junction Creek (coming off the slopes of the mtn.), a tributary of the Russell River, which in turn joins the Burdekin, a little above their combined mouth. Settled in at the cove "Panaiks" if a property owned by Stood, Giddens & Wiemer. Fri ap. 2. Van & I had managed to get out approximately 40 traps. Most were set along the edge of the creek bed but a few went in second flush & much dropped about 15cwt. The catch comprised 2 Belomys (carbuncul), a number of Rattus exulis, 2 Rattus californicus & a cahalios - his set having the underside of the tail blocks. In from. went up to the beginning of the trail leading to the tip of Bellenden Ken but lost the trail in a "burn". Mensub Kern (and sons) are apparently the only people who know the trail well. The fairly flat areas are fenced & planted to corn while the public between are used to feed stock. A nearby patch 1 200ft (isolated) is badly burned & set up. If you are some good prizes to the s.w. Jacky produced nothing. Sat. ap. 3. Found entrance to trail up mtn: with wild raspberry patch but lost trail in large "burn" (Len found it later). The catch rather poor, so shifted traps to unexploited scrub where the Junction Creek comes off Bellenden Ken. Heavy rain as we just returned. Pend came ask to learn writer we wanted to go up the mtn. Len & I arrange to go Friday, Van to take over my trip line.

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Sim Apr. 4. A very stormy night. Another large catch — 14, including 2 melonfs. Van is at least developing spinning speed. Very glad of that. Preparing for Bellenden Ker climb in the morning. Don is going to get plants; I to entomologise. Am getting badly bitten about the ankles by leeches. They seem to be biting my boots or take hold in the same place! The bites bleed for a considerable time with quite a lot. They cause swellings of the ankles. I'm trying various preventives — not to successfully. Turned over my top line to Van this p.m. The rain makes a bad outlook for tomorrow's trip. Mon. Apr. 5. Left for the mountain with two young local chaps who know the trail to the summit — Bill Kems and Sven Neilson — at 7.30 a.m. We travelled taking approximately 5 minutes rest every half hour. The first 700 feet was through fruit or bush or otherwise altered tangle of Latin thorn — tangle of lawyer cane and a creeping bamboo — vile territory! We crossed a couple of gullies — a small creek (where there is a dangerous, slippery sheet of granite covered with an inch of water, to be crossed). Then began a series of steep climbs interrupted by short lengths of crest trail leading to the top of a great ridge projecting ENE from the main range. The eastern tip is reached at about 1000 feet. The way leads along this ridge — mostly up but sometimes down, which in places becomes almost knife-edged. I finished up several plant species along that section, including a new, sweet-scented white-flowering shrub— potato of its Rubiaceae. The ridge also carried some Kauri pine. It was all forested, though in narrow places several cutouts might be made. The river bed of this ridge juts out from the main Bellenden Ker range at a point where there is a trickle of water and climbers generally stop for lunch. We did a "fool-up" too. Next came 700-800 feet of extremely steep, rocky slope, which finally wound off, and we were on the top of one of the knobs of the range — 314 feet. We arrived there at 1.10. Another half hour, down + up

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past two other bros to the north brought us to "Tick Camp", a tiny palm hut, with a very leaky roof, at 2. pm. Rain came on as we finished our lunch. We arrived at Tick Camp in rain, and the downpour continued well into the night. Our improvised carrying bags, our blankets, everything we had except two articles - my small hammock and a waxed food bag - were speedily saturated. The huts had been built to protect against a dry cold wind. The rainy southeaster that day blew right through it. Sam & Bill had to rig up an opposing roof of an extra tarp (attached) for camp space. All looked badly. Exactly two hours were needed to start a fire. The boys had been telling us of an infallible mountain firewood named "jildo" (ChitToe), which lit with a single match & burned with the fastest of ease. This was the wood which needed two hours to light. We slept in wet blankets or wet mud. Tues. Apr. 6. At 8 next morning we started for the summit. Tick Camp proved to be only 2000 feet above sealvel not the 4000 we had been told. This left us 2000 feet instead of 1000 feet to climb that day. No rain came till we were half way up. The climb varied - no worse than the day before. We went up through the same forest type of thin scrub, with certain new species. At about 4 P.M. just the first of the peculiar Dracophyllum was encountered this with other peculiar species of plants continued to its top. The Summit was forested with a marked, weather-beaten forest, many of the trees prostrate. There was an undergrowth of grassy & frosty vegetation - all very dense & appalling wet. The summit consisted of a very narrow shallow short crust. The men (and we too) were shaking with the cold, we spent about 3 by hours up there & then went down. I collected a lot of plants, I found some sage.

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colnd slay, 2 opedus, 4 2 myriaphs. We reached Tick Camp at abt 2 p.m. The rain had stopped & it remained fine until night- futurall for us. A hotie fire let us dry most of our saturated clothes; & we improved sleeping conditions somewhat by cutting more palm leaves. Rain came again at night. wed apr. 7. A drizzle was falling. We corned a haphazard breakfast, bundled up our packs, and left at abt 8 o'clock. We reached the Venetian Creek camp just after noon - bone weary from carrying our heavy rain soaked packs & trudging down the slippery trail. The young rats trapped at Tick Camp taken down to be skinned were perfectly preserved by the injections of ½ formalin, to wash I had given them. One of them had been taken out of the trap early morning of the 6th. Sun. ap. 8. The shaky little "utility" came for us in the pm & took us back to Cairns. My ankles greatly swollen from lunch bites. Tons that both sr & ship strikes were over & the men back to work. Thu. ap. 9. The "Tims" arrived during the night. Sat. ap. 10 Nothing unloaded which belongs to the expedition, yet. Sun. ap. In late pm with George Brookes to see the rally of Duskwater Creek and the Cairns water intakes. I wanted to compare it with Barns Watu in case we had to choose a break for more field work Temporarily. Van went out to Green Island, Daniels Reef. 2 a.m. net plan, movably to Sydney, on which E.T. Gillings a passenger. Took at 7.30 a.m.

Topotypes (virtual) from the Cairns & Atherton area. (not secured marked *) * Ornithorynchus anatinus f. proximus Th. 1923 Ravensbre * Antechinus flavigulus adustus Thomas, 1923 Ravensbre * " sodreni Thomas, 1923 Ravensbre * Daogurops gracilis Ramsay, 1888 Bellenden Ker Perameles nana palleseens Thomas, 1923 Ravensbre Aerobatis pygmaeus f. frontalis De Vis, 1887 Herbert R. into * Eudromilda maerula Mjoly, 1916 Cedar Creek, Athltn. * Petaurus norfolkensis gracilis De Vis, 1883 N. Q. Carwell Dactylapsila tricula fumosa Tate * Pseudoteinus perigrinus lincenens Thomas, 1923 Ravensbre Pseudoechim P. flabertinae Collett, 1884 Herbert Vale * " " Colletti wait, 1899 Bear Pocket, Tinaroo ? " archei Collett, 1884 N. Q. " lemuoides Collett, 1884 N. Q. " cervinus Longman, 1915 (syn.) Atherton Tab. * Schoinostallos minor Collett, 1887 Herbert Vale " civireus Ramsay, 1890 (syn.) Bellenden Ker Triktesurus vulpecula Johnstonii Ramsay, 1888 " Hyperythrum machatium Ramsay 1876 Rockingham Bay * Dendrolagus lumholtri Collett, 1884 Herbert Vale ? " fulvus De Vis, 1888 (syn.) Herberton ? Gastrodrom bichth apicalis Surtler, 1874 Cape Croftor * Hydromys longigrani Thomas, 1923 Ravensbre Rattus assimili coracius Thomas, 1923 Ravensbre * Eprypia chionogaster Lomtby, 1916 (E. ratus?) 10 lga Uromys derrini Thomas, 1923 Ravensbre * Melomys cervinipes elobaeus Thomas, 1924 Ravensbre Melomys littoralis Lomtby, 1916 Russell River * Nyctophilus bifas Thomas, 1915 Herberton * Taphozous fulvocus De Vis, 1905 Gourie Creek, Carwell * " medioclinicus De Vis, 1905 "

Mon. Ap. 12. Ernie Stevens got me the data on a presentmory's in the Cairns museum - Cairns No. 806, "shot about 1/4 mile along railway line from Atherton towards Tolga. Wm Kildston, 3.1.40". This probably implies that it is an arboreal "forest" rat. It is sometimes referred to as a "polacat". Van's podocarp with skin incision D: Mossman Gorge. Mar. 18. 1948 T.L. 677; T. 244; H.C. 113; E(CR) 53. Fri. Ap. 16. Got away just after midnight last night. Passed by Mossman at dawn, at Snapper Island N the north of the Daintree River about 9 o'clock. Mt. Thornton (Thornton Peak, up which Parrs has been turbi) stood out clearly to N.W. Passed Cape Tribulation about noon. The Bloomfield River about 2 pm. The Annan River about 5 and into the Endeavour River. Cornton about 5.30. To the north appear prominent, level tabled sedimentaries in marked contrast to the litherts granitic roads and rounded topography. Privately speaking the terrain fronting the sea between Cairns and Cooktown is clad in rain scrub - though a number of the projecting ridges have their crests bare, paddy or covered with a poor vegetation. One is impressed with the fact that the landscape is filled with bold hills + mountains, whilst flat areas are few afar between. In the evening we called upon Dr. Kesteven, the eminent anatomist & friend of W.K. Grey at the Cooktown Hospital. He kindly gave us two plates - a species of Hippopotamus sentrei and a species of Scoteinoides. He is working now on the embryology of the crocodile & badly needs well preserved material. Sat. Ap. 17. At dawn passed lots rocks of sand dunes. Coming up on Barron cape & letter. Then flattening to Lookout Point (almost 20 miles) Continuities, Lexton's sand dune country. Inland (westward) extensive sedimentary ranges up to 2065 feet.

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Passed bare, isolated Lookout Point at 9. a.m. rose bad dunes beyond but less developed, giving way to fringe of margoves. Rounded, bare Peak ahead. Turtle Bay passed at 9.50. Passed inside Newton Isl. at 2. p.m. Saddle Hill clst 1.30 pm. Mt Stickey Range; Saddle Hill Ranges (1400-1500) and the range NW of Jeannie R., 1300 to 2000 feet all appear to be horizontally bedded sandstone. Noble Island, N. south of Jeannie R., has produced tin. A stop has been made in Warson Isl. to test for Wolfram (Cr.god). Never prominent features are Abbey Peak, North Bay Point, and Cape Helvills (no altitude given on 17 m.p.i. map.) Boy pilot says to wait in truck this year from Corktown to Starks. Road had a good deal of down tinta. Creeks fairly numerous but dry quickly. Starks has some salt pans. It is a cattle station. In late afternoon we stopped by a temporarily abandoned foot which had run aground on Schweitzer's Bay, a "dead" reef between the outer Barrier and the mainland. The water (a little after low tide) was about a foot deep, dotted with masses of green seaweed. We four rowed over to it -- spent half an hour wading about. "Scrub clams" were common. They were probably from 6" to 12" long. Bass also many butter-stars, black sea cucumbers, deep blue starfish, ten starfish with red spots, a variety of bivalves and univalves, including Trochus-like shells. Collected a few shells as souvenirs. Sunap. 18. We must have rounded Cape Helvills at about 10-11 p.m. as we ran into quite a chop of sea. At 12.15 the motor stopped for a few I looked out to see dim hills due south, which may have been Cape Helvills still. At 4.30 the motor stopped a few minutes I again went to deck. Then saw again hills to S., which were either the Thinders Isles or the Bathurst Ranges. All night we held a westerly course.

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At dawn we were in Prince's Charlotte Bay heading north again. The coast 10 miles away at the hills low & dim. The McElwraith Range, behind which lies Coen, was wreathed in cloud. To the north the southernmost peaks of the Lockhart Mission coast range - 1000-1600 feet stood out on the distant horizon. Passed the Lockhart about 8 o'clock & started across Lloyd's Bay, at the inner end of which lies Portland Roads. In the night the sea gulli chippy as we rounded Cape Brenville. Mon. Apr. 19. Farfrom shore. Low hills + distant sand dunes. Engine trouble. Crossed Sheldrake Bay mostly under sail. In mid-p.m. reached Hamilton Island. Bent anchor for 2 hours while engine repairs. Tide was low. On from the reef the shore partly bare. A core of sedimented coral rock. Vegetation: Cedraria, Conodendrus per-capace, a fig, a patch of small tree toshubs, some sedges, Portunia, etc. Two turtle nests with eggs found. Plan to save some of each for Heateven. Got quite a few souvenir shells. Still 80 miles to go. Tues. Apr. 20. A rough, chippy night with a few showers - strong south-east. Left Hamilton Island about 6 p.m. Start light & anchor chain & let left ship drift on rising tide. Had to start engine to go back & pick up lost boat load of oil cans. In early a.m. had school of porpoises (Lagenorhynchus?) under our bows. They were tricolour brown, gray-white (see opp. pop). The spinula was circular. Pictorial fins scimitar- like. Difficult to see how speed maintained. Weather this nautical was moved much. An occasional anguilliform whirl was only sign of propulsive effort. 2. Dawn soon after we had cross through Albany strait. At 6.30 we passed Cape York. Sands & mist again. Mistily low island to W. and N.W. SW Coasts by 7.30 a.m. Tip mostly bare as in "frost". Another run-out of fuel but soon wetter.

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We had to stand quill far out until nearly opposite Red Island (at 9 a.m.), then turn directly in, heading for a beacon, & find Sharp right to the wharf. A wrecked place strewn with hundreds of empty 100-gallon gas drums--the aftermath of war. Our new cork Joe Metropoli (“Betty Joe”) was waiting on the wharf. Transportation had not yet arrived. Dick Holland of Lockerbie, the original home (and name) of Tardieu. His two sons Stan and Tom arrived in their trucks & guys said that Dick was on the way. There had been recent heavy rain, and fearing the dirt roads impassable, he had taken the long way around. Meanwhile I made some lunch. Dick arrived about 1:30. We loaded up his “blitz” truck & crossing a number of streams & swamps without topping down, reached Lockerbie almost 3:30 p.m. Then we met Mrs. Holland, a Scots woman from Dumfriesshire & later a daughter about 20 and a third son Dick, about 18. Sufficient carps was erected under my old maple trees so we could sleep in shelter. In the evening we were invited over to talk a while with the family. Wed. Apr. 21. Practically the whole day devoted to making camp. A second load (and last) came up about 11. But we were ready for the baggage. In the late p.m. gave my two boys, George Morton and Peter Dye, 5 traps each to test them out. The former, an old also hunter, has served wallyby spears. Van went out fishing in high numbers & killed a y. male spotted muskero and a melomys. Thu. 22. Sat. Apr. 22- 24. Setting trap at tree in yard. Teddy boys to stew. Van out “jacki” but a full room:- Take so far: R. lucopus many Festernada apilis ! Melomys castaneus 10+. R. culciformis 2. Pl. maculatus 1. Dactylopsila pecata 1.

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Sun Ap. 25. Lad night Van pot an dun Dactylopsis. Seven jichy - gir on fun 7.15 to 9.15. Did not see an eye! Bay took two chongo. This evening the boys caught Two Hippopotamus alterence, in their tents. Lochuri is a "vanston" lettuce. It is just at the west foot of the divide ridge. The ridge is south - covered, the lowlands mostly in forest. Then an little "sewls" scattered sand. The Sandadnya Creek runs N.W. to near here. It is mostly edged with fruit but a little sewls cyprian also. The sewls is composed of one moderately tall tree - at most 100 feet. The savanna is chiefly in tall spear fern. Some patches of short fern shrubs at Horse plain, Temperature on Wed. Thru to Fri nights over Cowl - down to 75°. Last night, partly overcast, the thermometer did not drop below 80°. Tonight is 79°. The S.E. winds are blowing strong. Vackings and triple eyes of bats in flight - fatable Small fruit bats such as Nyctinia, Ochtonycteris, and Syconycteris. Mon Ap. 26. Short scrub turkey. Moved 10 traps to Sandadnya Creek. Caught 9 set for Hydromys. At night received about a score of Miniopterus - 1 Chalinolobus, 2 Teptozonus from China turned on Possession Isl., collected by the crew of the "Lochiel". Died turkey for bats. Tues Ap. 27. Pattus & Melony still camp in. The Rattus of the jecti gangs is still scarce (we not have Yet). No Hydromys. The older of my two boys, Moreton shot at Thylopsis, Stygim, Coxenii. Set 15 more river traps. Rebuilt old line with dried fish. Wed. Ap. 28. Vackings in Saw hill scrubs produced only a pecko. Saw number of bats. Van shot ad. 9 Cuscus & a Dactylopsis. Thu. Ap. 29. Horta, Sanguineta levels laye male sand valley. Nail day. Self went down with truck to Road Johns Point.

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In the evening the Hollands drove us a few miles west off on the Cape York Road. Old Dick & I hunted back over the open country (kills, first recent), young Dick & Van kept the truck & hunted along the road. They got 2 bandicoots & a fair-sized wallaby. We got nothing. Fri. Apr. Another bat (H. allbarensis) killed by the boys in 30. Their test. Some Bettors & 2 Belomys. Shifted my entire water-side line (25 traps along the Landaileys) to progress sets to try to fill out our series of Rattus culminatus subsp., of which we have only 3 or 4 specimens. Sat. May. Cut new trail from end of "mayo-line" to top of "jump-up" about a mile. Did not quite finish. Mostly heavy sand proving or ironstone. Went with Dick Holland, young Dick, Buff & all four dogs out to place nearly due west - a stream flowing through palm-swamps. The Dick's & the dogs went forty pig or a bullock. Buff & I went by henty. A bullock was shot. We returned about 4.30 p.m. Found that two of the boys had quit their jobs & returned to Cowal Creek Mission. The old hunter stayed to take a letter from Len addressed to the head of the mission. Sunday Completed trail after spinning out catch. Set 25 traps at its end in p.m. Newcastle Bay Thurs. May 6. Proceeded to Newcastle Bay, 3 mls. of Somerset. Track had a many trees to be cut out. Near Somerset the pineapples truck left the road & crossed open forest country. Stopped to see seed-filled Lake Fronts. Set logged in Other - only 1 will you distract. Lift Lockheed 745 arrived Newcastle Bay 12.15 p.m. Camped up & almost in under-pond by night. Set few traps. Van got a Uromys & a new Belomys. The Uromys any ironstone rocks & cliffs just above the treelined.

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Fri day 7. This cape consists of sea beach, ironstone low headed backed by star pine cove, sand dunes, a protruding swamp which breaks out as small stems to the sea at intervals through the dunes. The dunes are cut up by the prevailing SE trade wind Super brief storms. Van trapped 1 Delmops, 1 Bronze Total traps out: about 160. Jacky at night: Van shot a Dactylopsila; I caught a night-turk by hand. Sat. May 8. I trapped 2 Delmops; Van & Morton nil. Van's Delmop If yesterday may be new. Beach south of us is named Name Beach, that with Nanthau Beach (1 inch = 1 mile). The rocky point between is Name Point; Far to SE can see Heights of Turtlehead Island. Van + I cleared back trail off Emerant Rd for about a mile - across creek where truck bogged down earlier in week, weather improved. Jacky shot a Petanus bruneiceps. Van shot sometly but couldn't find it. I picked up a pale gray secto boy land. + 2 figs. Sun. May 9. Nothing in any of the traps. Van & I cleared out a night hunting system of branching trails on the lee side of the scrub. Van killed a 7-ft. carpet snake under the tree when she was searching for the animal & had lost the night before. In the c.s. were a baby bandicoot and an Acrobates. Was this the specimen Van dropped the night before? It could have been. An x-ray would show whether it had any #11 str. in it. I shifted 15 of my traps in for. Van loping for late at sea-cliff. Mon. May 10. Van netted Toplophosus and Hipposiderus cervinus in crevices in ironstone cliffs facing sea, Morton too; 1 Rattus leucops + 1 shrike. I cut new track behind clumps to connect with my s.o. trail. Plenty of green hornets.

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1948. Wed. May 12. This morning hunt for foxes thus possibly contain's dens - out to Lake. Old dens, and sup: Lake Heavily forested mayi denex Its lake to SE. Due is so time outlet but seepage occurs thl in sandy plain. No rat. Yesterday sat henty with Van in a.m. Shiftin some trips. Jacky at night. Dick Holland arrived in his truck. He + Van were jacking for 3 hours. No results. Thu. May 13. Nothing in town. Morton shot a Thylacule. Trip to Somerset, At Somerset we saw the old Jardine residence - abandoned now for at least 6 years. Also saw Jardines Gran - just behind the beach in the valley. Dark nearly do bats, Hippopitodus eurinus, including the red place, in the ceilinged living room. Allby John, across Allby Pass (1 mile wide?). Looked attractions. Bath at cup about 5 p.m., after stopping to examine both Lake Prowto and Lake Wickcura. → Returned in a.m. to Lockenbie. Sat. May 15. Sent Van to work the saw mill some - 2 miles nw of Lockenbie. Sun. May 16 Mon. Day 17.} Jardine River. Tues, May 18. Left Lockenbie at 7.30. Dick drove us out to the Higgins Field at Jacky Jacky Creek; then back to the Drake Head Road & along the Telegraph line. Crossed the Dippin Creek (sandy swamps) by a very rickety

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old bridge. South of that a succession of monstrous ridges with sandy hollows intervening led to Dale Saranere - large swampy lake - on our right (west). One more ridge ran on the Tardine River (100 yards wide). Camp was finally placed at the 5 foot of the last ridge by a little swampy Copond subject to a 3-4-foot rise in flood time. Then Saranere is 1/2 miles away north of the Tardine crossing 1 mile south - but the river can be reached only 300 yards east by crossing a knee-deep ox-bow. The land is poor and sandy. The boy Roy & I put out to traps. That evening I hunted back along the road to Saranere. All I saw was a flying fox on the wing. Then an lot of spindled plants, flowers, and ferns to mark a harvest. Wed 19. Nothing whatever in the traps. We had 3 lines: one along the lagoon & its approach slopes (35 Taps); 15 more up on the monstrous ridges; and 20 more along the banks of the Tardine. Later, when taking a "walk-about", found an old dead male wallaby (Mac. gilis), and saved the skull. Probably it came to this desolate land to die. Then. Jackin' last night: 1 wallaby (sand) with Cape "joey". May 20. Only have one other. Killed a night hawk by error. Today traps empty - undisturbed. In p.m. used wallaby carcass to bait drip traps - drag-hair. Jackin'. Shot a jecko in "Cypotomus" at river side, right at road crossing. This is certainly a duck of a camp. Fri. May 21 Picked up traps.

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Sat May 22 Diech Hollands came into camp about 5.30. We focked. In a.m. fat away and 8 a.m. bee bad; duvity Q Arr at a by. Place of "sans foames" Pieched. Red Bld Pair out 11.30. Sat Van & Datta R.K. Van had 2 flying phalopes - various sorts, a Phaloper, a spotted cat. Tonight set traps for spotted cats: a batting y & breast beam rivets. Van came in with his iron barge or trench. Sun May 23. Skiing the wallaby & Limpus taken by light last night. Also killed a circl-marked wild lyped from east 8 miles out. A "typi shark" star Y. jetty. Drying speen's tents. Sat. Gyp Winkler joined to try to Patched Roads. Tacking at night - nothing. Full moon. Fri. May 24. Reorganising. Van for a "cat" at Coral Creek in ceiling of schist zone. In my view the "Tip", roughly 10 miles x 10 miles represents a relatively poor part of "northeastern Australia". It may however have been much richer or have had a very different population at various times in its past - for it undoubtedly served as the highway for communication with New Guinea. Today's Pedestrian height I had failed to reach 300 feet. Its geology is basically granitic, altered in some parts to detritus residual material, in other parts to sand and, silt, clay. It is chiefly covered with open forest. But only the main ridge or parts of subsidiary ridges there- are also considerable arbores of scrubbing or rain forest. The presence of the rain forest is controlled by a combination of humidity and soil conditions. 1000m in forest & highest rainfall are found at around the sawmill pocket, 2 mi NW of Lockerbree. Steam and sandstone regions areas, with the exception of the latter to the far north-east.

Topotypes thus far secured at the "Tip" (except *) Satarellus kalkalensis predator Thomas, 1926. The type was taken by Robert Kemp at Utinga. Isoodon peninsulae Thomas, 1922 " " " Daetylopsila picta Thomas, 1908. Type taken at Port Albany by C. Coxen. Phalanger medicaudalis Gould, 1850. Type taken by Macgillivray at "Cape York", " " var. ochropus (a synonym) Gray, 1866. " From Port Albany, collected by C. Coxen. Thylacis stigmaticus coxeni Gray, 1866, Type from Port Albany by C. Coxen " " gazella De Vis (= coxeni) Typidium Sonnerat by ? Protemnodon dyilis jardini De Vis, 1884. Type from "Cape York", collected by R. Broadbent. Rattus leucopus Gould, 1867. Type for "Cape York" collected by "Dänel" " Terrareginae Alston (synonym) 1879. " Cape York" Uromys eardinaudelius Peters Kretz, 1867 " Cape York" " macrophus Gray, 1866 (Synonym). Port Albany, collected by Coxen. Delomys australis Thomas, 1924. Type from Piara, collected by R. Kemp. * Pteropus seepulcatus Peters, 1862. " Type for "Cape York" Hippozalum carinum Gould, 1854. Types for "Cape York" and Albany held by Macgillivray " allanensis Gray, 1866 " Type from Port Albany by C. Coxen. Taphozous australis Gould, 1854 Type, Albany Dept coll. Macgillivray " Hypolopius personata Kretz, 1867 Type for "Cape York". (1+1, Cat puts as Pithio valtus) Notomys agilis Thomas, 1921 Type from "Cape York" collected by Coxen.

of the "Trip" 14 Fallow comprises for certain Species: monotremes, 1; Marsupials, 8; rodents, 6. These are divided between rain forest & open forest habitats as follows:- Plain Rain forest Open forest. Monotremes: Chiff Tachypleus Antechinus Marsupials Satanellus Isoodon Acrotates Petamno ? Dactylgale ? Ptholanger- Chiffs Anthelius. < Thylacole -> Protemeridum Rodents Rattlus lucipus Rattlus culvorum < Hydromys -> chiefly New Guinean. Uromys Melomys. Of the "rain forest" group all but Thylacole and Hydromys find their nearest relatives in New Guinea. Of the "open forest" group Satanellus is the Australian representative of a New Guinean genus, but the art-fam'd which it belongs in Australia. All others of this list are Australian. Hydromys is common to both Australia and New Guinea but the 3 forms were the Hydromyces are confined to New Build. Thylacole with three Australian species one being in New Guinean may be held to be chiefly Australian. Tachypleus is chiefly Australian, or penetrating it south New Guinea. I am not wholly convinced that it should be classed as a "sacrificed" animal

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Thursday Island Wed. May 26. The "barge" (cardy barge of war prints) came late in the afternoon when the tide was low. We set up at 2 a.m., loaded the barge at high tide & left as soon as possible (3.30) for Thursday Island, arriving there Thursday at 8 - in time for breakfast. We tied up alongside the "Algebra", a 700-ton- Steamer, which will take us tomorrow or Saturday to Portland Roads. We are staying at Mrs Callahan's hotel, near don to Burns Ship Co. In the afternoon I crossed the island via the old Cemetery to look at the north shore. Van located quite a lot of bats in old buildings. We were invited this evening to Kadzow's. Met there four captains of ships, Dr & Mrs Barnes (the former came on a brief visit to Lockartie while we were there), and Mr & Mrs Week. Mr Week, in banking, is the son of A.S. Week, who did so much zoological work for Rothschild in New Guinea. Kadzow years ago visited Somerset & there met Robert Kemp, collector of several local mammals. Kemp says Kadzow used to collect for Gregory Matthews, one of the founders of the Australian Museum, Sydney. Kemp worked at Utinga and Piana. Fri. May 28. Van has developed an eye infection and may possibly have to remain behind in T.I. under the care of Dr Barnes. A good day for parties. Naiveut. Stemmed 16 bats - Solenius - collected by Van in fork at west ad gield on top & kill. In from we went out this for mars. The fug of dense clusters, partly from the ceiling, partly from one another. A reddish headed one and from with the midway way. The nets mostly 8. The "Algebra" to Horn Dock at 5 p.m. Will return to pick us up at 9 a.m. Tomorrow. Going to visit Mr & Mrs Barnes this evening.

Captured at Portland Roads :- Open forest Small scrubs (rain forest). Melonyx large Hydriopy Platymedon Thylacale Uromy Nyctinere Pteropus Rhinochophus Phropus Taptozous (creak in open) (in hut) & margines (in hut)

Fri Sat May 29. 28. Algyra to cross to Horn Island this pm & leave T. J. Sady at 9. a.m. Skinned 16 Scoteinids found by Van in ammunition area in fort at west end of T. I. Then we went & collected 51 mm twig. They could be seized by the lawful, as they hung in fused clusters, some's from our anthill bodies from the city. Van under Sodium Sulfacetamide - D. Barrea. To D. Barrea from that evening (previous evening to Louse of M. Kadzot); got the Torres Strait Piths (4 if thin). Sat May 29. Algyra sailed at 9 a.m. Van's eye much better, though still having drops. A good passage & fair weather. We pickled all 51 bats in qtrmalin. Passed that Allany passage & again saw Somerset. Portland Roads. Sun. May 30. Reached Portland Roads pier about 8.30 a.m. Unloaded say prompt ship lift. Used John's truck to take trips up to disposed army hut on his place. Vernon had arrived on the Wandana the day before (we passed her at 9 p.m. the night before). In pm put out 60 trips & Van a number more. Total something over 100. Went jacki. Van shot a possum, I a Whit-tailed rat. We could find neither of them. In pm we climbed the hill on which the former Radar station stands. Sort view but Unimpressed with possibilities of the place. Mon. May 31 In tropa only a Brolomp & a Hydromys — Van more. both bar - Stoney. Vernon jelly Some birds. Van had a young Brolomp. Tues. June 1. In tropa a Rattus only; Van + I out jackup the night before caught a Nye Terine. It had billions golden eyes under the light or seemed to be phototropic. It fluttered to me & settled an instant on my chest. I feathered it. Then it flew to Van who also missed. Next it flew down into its pass where we seized it.

Mt. Tozer and the West Branch of the Clark's R Scale (about) 2" = 1 mile. 4 1/4 miles

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Wed. June 2. This flea is another Newcastle Bay - a fair variety of species but very few specimens. Today another Rattus of the Chacopus group. Jackling is unsatisfactory - Van & I out three successive nights for about 2½ hours. Thus we have put in 7½ man-hours. The results are 1 Petunius; we both missed another shot each; Van and the Petunius (?) and & a native rat (?). If we had secured these we could still be needing 2 hours jackling to the specimen. A letter from Dr. Western dated May 24th stating he is ordering more Borin solution. Sat. June 5. Moved in two trucks to Dim Range, 16 mile away. Len & I had been there the previous Thursday & travelled with Mr. Pinwell by jeep to the flying field and afterwards up to the Tozer Gap (opp. page). We had the worst weather for several weeks, but selected camp sites for the next two 1½ to 2 months work. Saw a big cassowary. At Dim Range we settled ourselves in the former radio hut belonging to the Army (in war times). This is in the centre of a small patch of forest surrounded more or less by scrub. It is centrally placed close to the junction of the three main roads: to the south, west, and northeast. It is also near the junction of the North Claudie River and the Gordon Creek. Sunday The few traps yielded 8 Rattus related to Eucopus and a Belomys. Mon. June 7. Belomys, Rattus, Uromys, 3 specimens of Antechinus near jodmani. With lights: Cricetulus. Tues- June 8. Slaughter & Cricetus with jacklift's - Both were same age 20 earlier! Turtle in trap.

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Wed. June 9. Weather now fair. Dugfield poor. Water not a scent wally. Try Gals stipulation. Boil day. Plane in at 4 p.m. Harvested mm x "Snowy" Baker arrived for Corn Creek. Gallup of "Frank Roods" due by plane. mid night Thu. June 10. Shot 8 cuscus on ground in flood forest. Three phascogales in traps. 2 p.m. Van + I went up Mt. Shea (620 ft.). Conditions shrubby & unattractive. Sund. June 13. Trip with Lin, Pinwell & Norr to within 4 miles of Pascre River crossing. (see below). Large wallaby or Wallaroo? Shot by Barry Fisher. Between Claudie & New Claudie air strips. Male. Weight. 56 lbs. Sandy colour, + scarcely darker than Sand Wallaby. Dimensions: Total length (taken by Don Vernon) 73 1/2 in. ( ? ); tail, 33 (838); hind foot, 9 1/2 ( ? ); Ear (from notch), 3 3/4 (?); greater pirth (?), 27 inches (?). Skull: - Cond. head l., 154 mm.; z. b., 80; pl.l. 96. p4, 9.8; m1, ±6; m2, ±7; m3, ±8.8; m4, ±10. Wed. June 16. Extremely busy last few days. - Numerous spotted cuscuses and fair number of trapped marsupials. Night hunting every night. Weather uncertain - snowy. Sat. June 19. Very busy last few days. More cuscuses; a spring Antechinus, a badger. A cold snap last night, with minimum 58° June 21. Don caught a large & P. maculatus with tiny pouch young. The mother weighed 8lbs 4oz. The young was given to us (Combe no. 10945).

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Sun. June 20 A proposed schedule designed to carry things to Coen follows: 1. Pack 3 weeks stores for 2 camps. a. Tozer area b. Bonni's Creek July 28 - July 12. 2. Return to Dainage and reorganise:- July 19 - July 21. 3. Move entire outfit to Weirlock July 22 - July 26. 4. Weirlock to Archer River July 27 - 28. 5. Archer to Coen Arrive July 28. Work in Coen for a month & week Shipton's Flat, via Corkett about Sept. 1st. Trees. P. Phol. maculatus (in Q'last mues). 955; 445; 75; 20 (ear). Sun June 27 All last week occupied trying increase collection. Van spent 2 nights at the Gordon Landing strip & got a very good collection which included Hippopotamus senoni. I went up to the Drycas district "mine", Scarlet Perper with Barry Fisher in search of a "fat-tailed mouse" which used to be seen there 55 years ago. The place was totally abandoned & little left of it. We camped in Barry's truck. I put out 80 traps & caught nothing. We moved up to the north foot of Mt Tozer today. Barry failed us (private car trouble), & Main Roads & Leo Fenris of the Airport together took us up the six miles of hill-road to this place. (See map 2 pages back). Set a few traps out. Mon. June 28. Grass Toelomys, Smiththopsia, Rattus crenatus (?), Isoodon. Started cutting track for camp on Mt Tozer. Err up to about 800 feet. Van & Norton already to traps. Will take Roy with me tomorrow.

Animals expected in Mt Tozer station Tachyglossus Antechinus (in sali.foer). √ Sminthopsis √ Dasyurus ?? Satarillus ?? √ Isoodon √ Pteralpa ?? Echymipera ??? Ochrobates ?? Eudromicia ?? Dactylopsida ? Petaurus breviceps ? Petaurus ?? Schoinobates ?? Pseudocheris perpinnus ?? Archiri ?? lemurides ?? Tucidomus ?? Phalanger aculeatus √ orientalis Hypsignyromodon ??? Gephyromimus ??? Perdriolopus ? Petrogale ?? Thylacale striatii ? √ Protemnodon aejitis ? Macropus robustus ?? Macropus (giganteus) Ceylung Hydroptes ? Platypus leucopus √ culorum √ Legabina ??? Microtisomys ?? Cricetulus ?? Notonyx ??? Melanopha australis √ Melanops √ Uromys √ Pteropus ? Dobonia ?

Tues. June 29. Turn Boy planned & returned to the attack on Mt Tozer. Aneroid read kept in terms of the map contours. The last 300 feet To the crest of the ridge I was ascending yesterday was dense "turkey bush" a very tangled trail to go through. It was mixed with loose rock (granite). The curr was needed about 11.30. On its western side low open rain forest, which immediately replaced the brush, for much easier going. The ridge cut ran due south. I paralleled it 50 feet below in the rain forest. After lunch cut on south for another turn. A bandicoots nest 200 feet below the crest on the east side. Wed. June 30. Finished prelim. exploration of Tozer, & located water & camp site. A diagram showing form & rocks & vegetation is shown herewith. Plans for camp:- Tent fly 10 lbs. 80 m. haps 10 " 25 ret. " 10 " 10 stub " 10 " Bait - Tent fly 10 lbs. 80 m. haps 10 " 25 ret. " 10 " 10 stub " 10 " Bait - Former Hypo 1 " Gun 8 " Ammo 1 " Poison bait 1 " Jack lyer 2 " Blankets 2 Blankets each 3 lbs. 6 (or sleeping 5 lbs). 1 Sway cover Extra clothes 1 machete & file (notebook open) Tunisiana loop ? 2 1 loaf bread. 2 tins cord. milk 4 Tea Sugar, oatmeal watering pemmikens plato kentucky shp- soap onions 2 billycans 1 frying pan. Drm. 30 " Grid caps 15 " Land Torch 45 lbs. 15 " 15 " 75 " Cures 2½ lbs. meat 2 lbs. medical. Camp opened Tomahawk 5 canisters 25 " each 4 " 30 " " 3. 40 " "

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Thur. July 1. Lew went up to Tozer. Van & Don get ready for carrying up their tronons. Han boys, Norton & Roy, cleaning the road back to Tozer Creek for super twenty, last down to the Claudis - Very pretty rock pool - gully large - large exposure of granitic rocks - very picturesque. Fri. July 2. Van & Don, each carrying approximately 50 lbs, left for Tozer shortly after 8 a.m. Weather misty to cloudy. Not too favorable. Rain first traps (110 of them) produced a Rattus Lucopus & 2 Belomys. Open first traps (55) gave nothing. Ned Pinwell, of "Main Roads", who spent the night here returned at 6 below this a.m. Martin out with Jim. Roy with traps. Traps out: Van 55 Roy 30 Martin 48 Tati 80 Milani 106 319 Sat July 2. Weather very bad. Unfortunate for men on top. Cloud, dwells with rare gleams of sunshine. Trapping poor. Geoff down to Patten Roads to meet our wire trip supplies on the "Wandera". Winkler people took him down. Sun. July 4. Boys down from Mt. report almost incessant rain. No mammals. Swarms of very large crickets ate the bait off the traps & by swarming & loading the threads spray the mousetraps. Don for only 2 birds. Boys reached D-mark on Mt Tozer but for no view. Late pm. Winkler folk & Geoff returned. We managed to accommodate 3 men, 2 women & 4 children for the night.

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Mm Tues. July 5. Only 3 mammals in traps. Drizzle & mist continue. Wenlock fegler, after trouble starty car, got away about 9 a.m. Tues. July 6. Hyp. Jitta brought: 1 snake from last Claudio River; 1 Lizard from Jim Rye Flying Strip; 1 Hippodamus cervinus from Lone at J.R. F.S. Wed. Thurs. Fri. up mountain. Ran into bad weather and left gear in July 7-9 new camp made by Van & Don & taking traps, 12 steel, 10 set, 15 mouse, went on to Pardon Gully where met Guff then coming back in the drizzle. Guff showed me the places under low casuarina forest which he believed to be "runways". Though I could not agree with him I set the whole of my steel traps, with bacon & museum bait lines suspended over each, in that area. I also put 5 net traps + 15 mouse traps there. The other 5 net traps were placed in Pardon Gully. In 2 nights 4 grass Belongs were captured in the last round place + 2 in some traps in the Casuarina. As other traps then was disturbed. What decided for me on the runway question was the large number of cavities & such caused by the natural fall of the casuarina leaves, almost exactly like the "good places" seen in pine woods at home where for gears the needles have fallen plain undisturbed on sticks & debris. Such cavities are not runways, though they may be used sometimes by mammals & second such. Other more open "runways" were in my opinion down-hill water channels floored with slipped Casuarina needles. Guff & Guff went down that afternoon. That evening the weather being only damp, no rain, I went out with jack light. Nothing. Thursday. Ford the same content 9 traps in other traps near camp north. All traps put out had bait guards to keep off, as far as possible, the voracious "crickets" (Really wingless Locusts) reported by Van & Don. Do some reboilites +, the sun appearing momentarily, took few photos of Pardon Gully & Tozer. That evening lot of drizzle. The traps began to snap. I found twelve + four crickets at each, often struggling to

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set at the baited cavity beneath the bait guard. Despite my having set the traps "hard", the crickets by crowd onto the heads, often set the tops off. They were Camillabatic & the newcomers enthusiastically devoured the stiff living bodies of those snapped in the tops. In one sprung trap with loose treadle I saw one cricket wrestling with the movable treadle in its attempts to get at the bait under the bait guard, raising & lowering the hinged treads in its attempt. Several crickets came into camps, apparently attracted by our fires. The crickets appeared to be more plentiful when rain or fog-drip was falling. Rain stopped at about 7 pm. Night remained dry. Picked up traps in the morning. 3 new grass belongs at Fardon Sully. Jeff & Willi came after 10 to help move Camps down below. Annied hit after 12. Van meanwhile had trapped a native cat, Satanellus & Procton had left on a few large male spotted cuscus. A few smaller mammals had been brought in, but the fauna in general remains very scanty. From the Tozer area facially we have only 11 species. And we come out next morning. Sat July 10 Another native cat (Van) - a young & with its pouch and a distinctive purplish pink. Females 4-4 = 8 Pouch of y. animal little developed. Dr. Jon cycled out on west road photographing. Couple fresh foot prints of dingos & pigs but none of wallaby. New signs of bandicoots. Sun July 11. Last night made an eight-trap set for dingos, the tracks of which were numerous on the road ½ mile to a mile west of camps. Nothing caught or disturbed this morning, however. Fine, fair day yesterday & everything dried up. Today cloudy & threatened shower again.

Mammals Expected at Brown's Creek. (1 week). Platyops ???? Tachyglusus ?? Antichinus ?? Smithopod Satanellus 1500 don Acrobatio ?? Ectypus ?? Petauristocypio ? Trichosurus ?? Cephyrynum ??? Petrogale ??? Thylacole ? Protemnodon spil? ? " Carapus ?? Hydromys ? Rattus burquus ??? (CA) " culorum ? Legadina ?? Tresorbums ?? Conulus ?? Notorya ?? Delomys autelius Delomys (lyre) ??? Uromys. ?? Ptenopus gouldii ?? Diprotodon magra ?? Nyctimis ?? Syconyctus ?? Odontonyctus ?? Rhinolophus ? Hippidulus semni ?? " bidens ?? " cervinus ?? " albanicus ? Nyctophilus ?? Chalinolobus ?? Epotesius ?? Scotomis ?? Trinigites ?? Toplosorus ?? Nyctimies ?? Champtor ?? (1 piece in cross stitch)

Mon July 12. Try dips trap-set (8) caught a netti cat - 3 lgs 4 feed each cauger in a separate trap. Main Roads truck came in good time. Grey tiger fit to set us more - in fact, Don Vernon cyclist to the new camps at Binn's Creek. Nearly all set up by mid - p.m. Traps: Roy, 10 stul, 10 rat ; Van, about 16 traps; myself, 28 traps. Evening: Van & I out for a mile along SW road, 1 Pteropus gouldii on bloodwood flowers. Tues. July 13. Traps: - 2 spotted cats in one double set (2 traps at one peg). Nobody else caught. Van took a rats foot (probably R. culmorum). Cycled almost to Closie Creek. Dips traps common, natural cat fairly numerous; wallaby few. Wed. July 14. Today Van took the only specimens: 2 Hydromys, 1 Rattus culmorum. By late pm the number of traps put out was:- Stil traps Rx traps Trm traps Total Van. 10 30 45 85 Myself. 40 30 35 105 Roy 5 30 0 35 55 90 80 225 Dry traps are disposed: 25 low Turkey bush (wane); 10 twig gully (many); 10 high dry open forest (rat); 15 high cliffs, in Gallup woods, near Binn's Creek (rat); 4 low, below. Same cliffs (rat); 1 water edge (rat); 3 water edge (stal); 2 below cliffs (stal); 4 above cliffs (stal); 10 open forest (stal); 20 variously placed up-stream. Weather: Overcast, became drearily in late p.m. Thur. July 15. Jackaljelly last night shot two pigmy moths and a Pteropus gouldii. The birds were perched at the side of the road 10 feet up and 200 yards apart. The fruit bat, which contained a large embryo, was on bloodwood flowers. Others were seen flying by at coordinate lights. This a.m. only a small Hydromys. Don took a Rattus leucopus. 916 h.ft. 36; wt 3.6 oz.; manum., 1-2=6; Tail, 186.

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Extra Mammal supplies for Wenlock - Corn work, 1 box B.B. 1 box 9 1 " 6 1 " 410 #11 1 " " dust. 2 cans bait large tail wire naphthaline + cotton 1 labels (Stuck). file wrapping paper 2 boxes buttons beaming board formelis paradichlorb. alcohol. repellent. 1 iodine Epsom salts Rit. 22 am. Van's box 38? 4 suitcases " wants no 94 (Bretten and binder.) Fri. July 16. Van shot a tiny Seotemis last night & Knockdown a RhinoPhus with a stick. Roy brought a grass Helomya & Van another. I had luck; took our first Desembrimys, a young male, in a double steel set placed at the base of one of the few surviving cedar sarrano trees at the base of which is a Joanna hole. Sat. July 17 Last night we went out early, taking only our lights, to a dry creek a mile west. At dusk we shot thru Taphosoma flaviventris. About 8:30 George Nankevins came through from Wenlock bringing a fine male wallaroo shot at the west fork of Sir William Thompson Range (a low rise in the land dividing the Burton & Parker drainage systems from each other). The Taphosoma are white beneath being slightly dusky posteriorly - very yellow. There is a thorax prong in both sexes (Ceratophragma). All paired divarticula - two sacs & ich by, beneath the skin, open into the base of each formelis on either side of the median line. Those of the 9 are much smaller than those of the male. The wallaroo weighed 93 lbs. Its i3 considerably worn, its m2 not fully in place.

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A plan was needed to let Van's atest turnings to wen lock, thus gaining several collecting days there. He will go with Norkettio, who returns the tomorrow. Sun July 18. Van, with Norton, pot away for Wenlock just after dinner. They arrived there before dark. Trops: 1 layer Melomps and the drip trap yielded an The native cat. Our own conveyance for Durn Place did not come. This due tomorrow, horrors. Picked up most traps - all the less productive parts of its line. In D.R. we expect to reorganise for the Gren trip, leaving ourselves for Wenlock next Thursday. Mon. No Main Roads driver, George Dunn, arrived at noon. July 19. We reached Durn Place over rather slippery roads in the scrub section, at about 3 p.m. Unpacked & settled in. Started setting cargo. A rum party, which I arrived, set started in the evening. Tues. July 20. Introduced Roy to a single shot gun. Saw him 12 steel traps baited with bacon. Set up bagging all day. Wed. July 21. Small line of 28 steel traps, gave 4 mammals rendered provisionally:- 1. Antechinus $ 265 - 124 - 24 - 13 Rainforest 2. Melomps $ 1275 $ 140 - 27 - 14 3. Ratito $ 318 - 167 - 34 - 19 4. Wrompa $ 627 - 345 - 63 - 30 The plane failed to arrive. Roy found a porcupine in the forest. 5. Tachyglossus Thur. July 22. Introps:- 6. Tachyglossus Rainforest. 7. Rattler $ 330 - 170 - 36 - 20 8. Hydromys $ 555 - 375 - 63 - 16 (Borden Creek), The porcupine (#6) had set off my last steel trap in the dense rain forest without getting caught, had become scared (?) and run down close tracks the trap, leaving only his dorsal spine visible.

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Fri. Jly 23. Word came that our transport Overlock (Hugh Dinka) is stalled with broken steering column at Coen. His brother Norman will drive down today for us. Van phoned in p.m. (1 o'clock), describing Overlock & his situation. Norman Dinka arrives with his truck at 11 p.m. Sat. Jly 24. We cross at 4.30 & left just as day broke, up to Tozer. Camp by 7.30. Bunn's Creek 9.30 where bedded remains of Cayon. Rock R. Pascoe 10 am. Tea. Pascoe a much better looking locality than was Bunn's Creek. Reached top of Sir Wm Thompson Range at 12.30 after climb through broken granite ridgy country. On sw side descent we slight, with many stretches of sandy road to Wanlock & the Balran R. Entus trip through "open pour". No [illegible] Waters seen. Van says because we passed there at midday. He was there in late p.m. & saw numerous kayaros quallabios. At Wanlock Van has already accused males of the three big Kayaros; the grey, the red"?" & the wallaroo. But as yet no rock wallabies. He also has Pteropus scopulatus, females only, P. Gouldii, Taphozous australis, and Rhinolophus, the last two for mine Tunnels. We were given a great welcome at Wanlock. Sun-Tues. Extremely busy. Night hunt 5+ M. nights, working W. night. 25-27 Jly Down mine 10. afternoons. Wed. At night a farewell party given for our group by Mrs & Mrs Jos. Dinka. Thurs Jly 29. Left Wanlock at 12.30 noon - arrived Archer River at dusk. Just time to get a few traps out. Only 6 kangaroos seen in 35 miles. Two were feeding on green persimmons that follow burning. Archer River still running, but fairly low. Returns through pegmatite granites with nw-se jointing.

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Fri. July 30. Two grasshoppers, Don't made tour with rifle: saw nothing. Last night Van saw a gray Johnson Crocodile. Few of bats flying about. County badly burnt; seems to contain little or no game. At night three of us went jackiping. I saw but failed to get a Petrosaurus hercynicus. Country rock porphyritic granite, the feldspars up to 1½ inches in length. Sat. July 31. One grasshopper, one Scotomis Atr by Van preeminens evening over sand bar, one Hydromys. Sun. Aug 1. Left the Archer at 10. Reached Coen (The Bend, 1 mile out) & camped on the Coen River, a pretty stream flowing from the north, at 4.30 p.m. Road rough & mostly along th telegraph line. Some bad sandy creek crossings - particularly Deep Creek. Van set a few traps (a Hydromys caught). All but myself (tired & sleepy) drove in to Coen in the evening. Mon. Aug 2. Van: 30 mouse 20 net - stale Trapped Roy: " 25 " " Tas: 20 10 " West to Coen 6 a.m. Jack Jones Armbrust who has the most ornamental place in Coen, including quite a nice garden. Also met Herb Thompson, aged 72, who knows a little about Rocky Scrub. Met Cecil Wilson, brother of Luke Wilson of Werlock. Cecil in the trucking business & will probably drive us out on the Port Roll-Back Road. The Coen horse races come on Friday & Saturday. Everybody at a standstill till they are over. Bush people from all over the peninsula are gathering for the event. Also met Mr. Walter Rose who runs the telegraph Office & acts as reporter for the "North Queensland Register." Set the above-listed traps in p.m. We are very comfortably ensconced in the 4-room cottage of Mr. Thompson's son-in-law.

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Then. Aug 5. Note from Mr. Steppard who moved battery from Leo Creek to Peach River :- 1. From turnoff of Coen-Worlock R's to Battery site on Peach R. 11 mi. 2. " Battery on Peach to Camp Orr Pocket (definitely north) 4-5 " 3. " " " edge of big scrub (illegible) 9 " 4. " Camp Orr Pocket to Mango tree (Crest of Range) 6 " 5. " Mango Tree to both Leo camps ± 1½ " 6 Camp Orr Pocket to edge of big scrub 5 " 7 Mango tree from edge of big scrub 3 " (See sketch map opposite). Coen a very poor place for mammals. Heavily pastured & very dry. Working mainly for bats in ruin tunnels. Considerable trouble to get information on Rocky Scrubs. The above, given by Steppard summarises the deliver of several days of inquiry. Today & tomorrow are the days of the annual Coen horse races. We are going tomorrow to put in an appearance. Expect to get away early next week. Altitude 600 feet at Coen town. GRT Wright rises to 1400 + ft, the main range appears the much higher. Fri. Aug 6. Second day of Coen races. Van, Geoff, Don & I went. Colorful but primitive, with bush horses, a sprinkling of whites & quite a lot of blacks in attendance. Party in tropo. Forest Hope Station, near Georgetown, 40 miles from Eliot R., nearer beyond Joseph - Worksite reputed to be there. Sat. Aug 7. Nipper hunt with Mr. Fisher. Visited Pride Peak this after 5 Toplozas. The nipper kent gave fort results - Poddling, Pseudodavis pergypinus, & a bandicoot var ratin out. Sun. Aug 8. Work all day on nipper catch. Packing for start to Rocky Settlement next day,

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Mon. Aug.9. Due to disability, I took we made let's start, truck clump at 2.30 p.m. went out on Even. Welch Rd thru 8-mi paddock fat. to abr 9 miles. We had Steppards 'Toy'. The ascent out crossing Crull Riv.- very sandy, shore dry, + redul corduroy. Track very indistinct hard to find. However it kept up close to the southern hills, leading over the lower fullies. Fitz's Creek, at the headwater of which are many deep-cleft ravines & a curious pinnacle rock, was bone dry. We posted on thru the night, cutty road + a more or less road procedure, till we finally, at 8-9 abouts, found water in L. Creek. Tue. Aug.10. Left early. Fairly easy progress. At abt 9 crossed a saddle below a mid-perfecting spur, then the try got us off the road for half a mile but we circled back to it. On nearly the day the big spur was in sight, at the nw. Your of which ran the Perch Riv. & was gourly breath old Steppards's battery (for crusty rock-outs). We crossed a running branch of the Perch at about 11.30 - then on over a number of dry fullies as we neared the big spur. Arrival at the Perch was almost unexpected - at about 2.30 p.m. The pack + saddle horses (2 stor) arrived abt 4 p.m. Len + I will ride up the hill tomorrow. We saw on fly fox - alone - then Van saw & for a second. They were P. Scapulatus. The road at the Perch was very poor. There was much down-tinder & much new regrowth - all of which had to be removed from the road before the truck could go on. The fully crossings got negligible much work. The perch flows thru a strip of flood forest (sink) at Steppards battery. The altitude appears from my barometer to be only 100 feet higher than other at Coen - or 700-800 feet. Got out a few times.

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Wed. Aug. 11 Brass x 9 with Shephard's man Alf set out on horseback for the highlands. We were taken down the Peach a way to the old Armbrust "yard" (cattle). Then east up the s. side of a broad valley, S.E. up a abrupt ridge to a scruffy ridge running E-W that separates the "bendall" from our valley (Shephard's Bating Silt). This ridge projects westward from Double Hill. Down 8E away from Double Hill crossed dry gully - grassy ridges, & down (1600-1725) to Wahn Hole. The S. lay Bald Hill. Left B.H. on our right drawing SE to Lorkow (2500-2400). Down through Camp Ore Pocket, across Linchen Creek, up Peach Pocket. Durned east - thru series 3 Pockets & 8 creek crossings. The pockets narrow, then lengthen 2-3 miles. Durned back at 12.20. Renewed blazes; missed the trail at scruffy ridge & headed straight for camp - S by W. Arrd. 5 p.m. Thur. Aug. 12 Don, Willie & I with 3 sheep losses & their driver Alf left camp at 9 a.m. (1 hour late). Crossed Peach at better place than y'day. Open treed up scruffy Ridge (about 10.30 a.m. (alt 1200-1400 ft); reached Wahn Hole, S.W. of Double Hill at 10.50; Camp Ore Pocket creek at 12.30. Arrived at Creek Detour 1 p.m., Lost ½ hour became bogged loose. Reached "fairest point" yesterday at 3 p.m. Entred by scrub few minutes E.S.E. Cloud stream (Alf says Peach Dains) at 3.30. Reached first tiny watercourse of Nesbit R. at 4 p.m. v camp. Sent Alf back with losses to feed them on just grass in one of the pockets. He is to return early tomorrow morning. Present alt.: (my aneroid, 2350 ft) True alt., probably alt. 2000. Fri. Aug. 13 Several lectures. No rain. Alf returned from grazing the losses on Peach-Camp Ore Pocket about 7.30 a.m. We left at 8 a.m. Camp was well within the beginning of the "by Scout". The trek, which required a good deal of clearing & sore bottoms in a tract of fallen trees, went in a fairly clearly direction, with an up-and-down course. At 9.30 a. second Nesbit stream was crossed at 2150 feet, and at 11 o'clock two other creeks together at 2100 ft. The road turned to NE & at 11.30 the "mapotu" (second if there), when much mining activity has taken place,

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(11.30 am). was reached - the altitude 2275. It marks a fork in the rd. Shortly after this the trail (right hand branch) began definitely to descend - its course generally n.e. The last half mile was quite steep and cut into the ravine of the Claudie Creek & Lakeland's Balting Silt, our destination. It was then 12.30-1 pm. The final altitude of my barometer 1800 feet. Descending the overregistering, I saw the camp silt an altitude of 1500 feet. The Silt was once enormously cleared. Banana mango & lime trees are scattered about. There is much regrowth. The Claudie is a steeply running, creek filled with granite boulders. There is one tiny clearing a few yards across. Trade camp - (Dr. Venn, "Willie", + 9) - 4 journey 60 net traps. Taking up the trail Der mijnr gave nothy. Latin, waship hand, saw eyes of rat in distance. Sat. Aug. 14. In traps 4 Antechinus, 6 Rattus. Van & Geoff with Roy arrived at 1.15. Brought extra supplies. Sm and old mm traps. Van went fishing for few minutes Sun. Aug 15 In traps Antechinus, Rattus + a very large Delomys. Len arrived at 1.30 with more supplies. Van + I picker walked back in dusk to Campo True, Corpj in Hypsi pyramidon. Latin Van caught a Delomys and a Dactylipsil. Saw bats, including Nyctibien. Mon. Aug. 16. Traps produced, besides the usual, one Delomys & one Hydromys. Noted one Hypsoidius simoni at right tail at 1800 ft. Saw Nyctinum. Tu. Aug 17 Traps: 1 Antechinus, 6 Rattus; a Delomys 527 The eve. before. Also trapped 2 possums. Temp. 59 at 6.30. Traps: 128 net traps, 61 still traps. Put out: 1 Nyctophilus, 2 Rhizophorus, 1 Hypsoidius simoni. Wed. Aug 18. Traps, 6.30 a.m. 58'. Traps: mithy new. At night Van & I caught 2 more Rhizophorus + 2 more Hypsoidius

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Sun. Aug.19. Temp 6:30 a.m. 58° The day for Van time to move to the top of the range to test the Ger savanna pockets. Picked up tops & moved To Carp Over Pocket, also 1500 feet, but on the western slope. The pack horses came late - not till 2.30. So we reached C.O.P. much later than we anticipated Just before dark. Full moon. Set out 10 tons each by midnight. Then thoroughly hunted C.O.P. with lamp lights but no results. Fri Aug.20. Temp. 6:30 am 56° Temp 56°- Very chilly all night. Heavy condensation on all objects. Sky clear. 1 Rattus subcinctus in pass & 1 R. corvatus in scrub. Established camp. A picturesque place with steep grass slopes sloping to narrowly scrub-lined creek, tributary of the Peach River. Our camp is cut just into the edge of the scrub so that we look into the trees on one side and out on the foothills on the other. Our objectives are: to make a quick survey of the mammal fauna; and to get more specimens of the Echidna found by Darlington in 1932. In from set tops: Total:- Stud. Rat. Van. 26 30 Dry 15 15 Geo. 20 40 61 85 = 146. Altitude: 7.30 am. 1900 ft; 11. a.m. 1880 ft; 2 p.m. 1950 ft; 5 p.m. 1975 ft 9.00 p.m. 1925 Sat. Aug.21. Temp. 6:30 a.m. 60° Trops: In grass: 1 Macro Rattus (subcinctus); 2 Sminthopsis & scrub: 3 Antechinus; 1 Rattus corvatus.

Nearby R Camp. Mango Trees. Two Creaks. First Second Creek Camp Creek First Scrub Creek. Last Open Area Savanna + Scrub. Dry Creek Scrub. "Bog Scrub." Dry Scrub. Camp Over Pocket Elk. G. 35 Hill N. of C.O.P. Scrubby Gully Peach Wrist Hole New Rd to Ridge - Crossing Domeican Blephard Bally Silt (Camp). Left Aug 19 3.15 ↓ 1825 ft. 4.00 2350 5.00 2275 5.15 2225 5.20 2450 5.40 2450 5.45 5.50 5.55 6.05 - 6.15 Camp Over Pocket Elk. G. 35 Air Aug 13. 12.30 1800ft. 11.30 2275 11.00 2100 9.30 2150 8.00 ↑ Left Camp. ← 4 pm. (camp) Arr Aug 12 12.30 pm 10.50 1600ft. 1200ft Ridge 1000-10.30 to 1400ft. 9.20 Lift ↑ 9.00 am. Road Trip Aug 11. 12.20 (turn back). "J.A." Turn 11.50. 2350 11.00 am 1850ft. (1900 at 1.25 pm) 10.40 2300ft. (2400 " 2 hm) 9.50 1850ft. 9.25 1600ft. (1725 at 2.30) 6 am ↑ 975ft. (1000 at 5 pm)

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

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is apparently toptypical of Allen's R. m. yungfer, which red phase of R. mygalellus came from Coen. All but one grey + a few intermediates were distinctly red. Spent rest of evening picking the bats & doing the remaining packing. Fri. Aug 27. Set away from The Bend at 9 & from Coen at 10. fairly rough road but long stretches of sand - all "open forest". Reached Elbtaypole, our overnight place, at 3.45 - 28 miles from Coen. It was once a mining center - and there are many remains of houses about. The water supply is from a well & it is stored in a 2000 gal. tank, now 2/3 empty. Alt. abt 700 ft. Got about 50 traps set out. went jockey up the telegraph line - a Trichosurus. In a.m. trap gave 1 betelomp. Sat. Aug. 28. Left camp at 8 a.m. Carried Prelmp & Trichosurus injected. Skinned in p.m. - both in perfect condition. R. Solomons & Burns - station - 700. 700 Yarrider - left passage. 700 Billy (Spionkop) - Burns set out to Bamboo state. Crest of the range - 950 ft. Down slope to dinner camp - Musgard Tel. Sta 3.45 p.m. (400/500 ft.) Set out Traps (Roy). Sun. Aug. 29 Left Musgrave at 8 a.m. Road mainly along telegraph line & apart rather better - much sand - enormous numbers of ant hills - cauliflower type, white, flat, magnetic, etc. Lost ½ hour testing rock pile for rock wallabies - platy & wallaroo sign but none of R.W. Crossed the forkhead a bit after 11 a.m. Arrived at Hannam's Run about 1 p.m. - about 40 miles south of Musgrave. Skinned morning cctel - 2 Rattus, 1 Hydriomys, Van under weather. Roy put out 25 rat traps.

(84) Mammals expected in the Cooktown area. (Reported) Hydromys . Perivula 16 Tachypterus √ Rattus conatus √ Miniopterus 17 Antechinus √

Mon Aug 30. left Harn River 8 a.m. Previous afternoon shot specimens out of camps of flying foxes of the species P. scapulatus. The first camp of this species was near Emmancoras. It is scattered along the very thin fringes of mini-scrub — usually about one till them for an undetermined distance (near 1st crossing). Single individuals were also plentiful. All the shot were males. The pups immediately close by may have reached fifty late. (See also Syr. 18) At night, jacks, they were all with its young feed in the tulip flowers & (?) thornbushes. They leechy fever as the river was left behind. Crossed the River (dry) at 11.15 Reached Fairview about 12.15 — Crossed the Little Laura River 9-20 mins. Later the Big Laura & Plached-Laura at 1.30pm. Bunked in the almost abandoned railway station, Lama — a team of few trucks — The "hotel" has a very few rooms. Phthiophthus lides under the beds, Largely from the full springs. Laura very sandy, dusty & excessively dry. Water is carried from some miles away. Police representative by Constable Vincent Booth with whom by Dr. I. R. Solmons. Shelled 5 flying foxes & 1 Phthiophthus. Hyde & Vincent took us to water hole in river when Johnson Cure said the plentiful. Had a few eyes of young ones — but far away. No remains. Tues. Sleep in railway station. Railmotor due at 11.30; leaves for Aug. 31. Cockstown at 1. Photographed Laura River & old wreck of s.s. bridge. Met Jack Dwyer, owner of good collection of Australian bird eggs — well catalogued as well, Apparently. Reached Cockstown 4.30 p.m. Stayed in hotel. Went up to see Dr. Kesteven at the hospital. Wed. Sep. 1. Reorganised equipment. Packed manuscript skins.

Climb done on Die Sep. 8. 1948 Sat. Sep. 4. Examine big scrub at mouth of Horan Creek - more traps. Sun * 5 Ride out to bat tunnel. Mon * 6 Local Camps:- Horan Creek 5-6 days. Dinnigan 2-3 nights. Base Camp} fill in. at Sawmills Mon. Sep. 18. Go out to Helenvale - spend 4 days - Drefs of Jacki i [illegible] Tue Sep. 18. Go to Black Ints - Test 2 nights. Sun Sep 20 Go to Greenhill - try two days for wallabies, re. Tue Sep 22 Return Corkton. Wed Sep 23. Go to Alderbury (24th mile) in Mr. Gledmore's gas truck for rock - Wallabies, re. From Sep 27 Be back in Corkton, possibly spend one night in silver gum country for possums, night-tails, squirrels.

Thur. Sep. 2. Left Corrton cmt 11 a.m. Lunch at 9:30 Wathington at Helensvale about 1.30 pm. Reached Shipton's Flats at about 4.30 pm. Much of the way is through open forest - Past Black Mountain, a pile of granite boulders almost wholly blackened by lichen or fungus. River scrub along the creeks - Wallsby Creek etc. Shipton's Flat is a disused sawmill & lumbering camp. The builds, some of which we occupy, in poor condition. Fri Sep. 3. Cold. 55°. In traps: grassy clearing 3 pears in clumps; in little valley scrub behind fence, 2 scrub Rattus conatus. Len & I left at 9 a.m. to explore Mt Dinningen. We had as guidance a letter written by an army man who had done trig. station work on top. From the sawmill we went east up over a rather steep ridge & down to Parrot Creek. We crossed the creek in thick scrub then turned up grassy, she-oak covered declivity, sou'westerly. The crest of the east-west ridge up which we then climbed was 1800 by Len, 2300 by me. Turned SE up the ever ascending crest - all open forest & mainly 'daisies'. Passed top of spur (which we descended in the pm & found too steep). Reached exposed area 'look-out' 2030 (2650) ft. Continued upward closer to mountain to "edge of scrub, 2620 (3350) feet (Army saw + 3000 ft). Track Track inside scrub more confused & difficult to follow than the jack-trail of Rocky Scrub. But pushing up right side I might just under crest, found the 2 20 ft rocks divided in letter, & then traversing south side for 100 feet or so came to water. Not very much of it & flowing steeply down a rocky bed inclined at nearly 60°. Returning I improved the track & met Len, who had also been searching fruitlessly for water, at "edge of scrub". Sat. Sep. 4. Colder. 53° Traps: 1 Melomys. Anemoid 1075 ft (= +800) A reconnaissance walk with Vant Horton to locate "big scrub". Land SW of Moran Creek mostly open forest. That between Brian Creek & Parrot Creek all scrub. Back in p.m. to clean track & pick camp site. Evening, sat by potential Platypus pool but saw no Platypuses. Set 10 steel traps.

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Temp. 57, Slight overcast. Traps. 3 Rattus. Sun. Sep. 5 Rode up with Jack Roberts to examine tunnel said to contain bats. also to see scrub roads crochet a camp site in scrubs. Much stinging Tree, much Lawyer care. Linn, Don, Van completed preparations for trip to Mt Dinnijan. Van shot a Nyctophilus in sawmill shed. Mon. Sep. 6. The travellers to Mt Dinnijan got away after two false starts — due to a pack horse twice bucking off its load — at 9.30. In traps 2 Delmog, 2 pass Rattus, 3 scrub Rattus. At 4.30 a 5th boy Noadie returned with the horses; a note from Linn to Marie, also a 7 tin kangaroo in a sack. It appared that Roy & Willies, sent for water, fired two up a tree, yelled for a gun (with Noadie) took up to them) + shot one— the female. It was cut down at once. I injected it ready for skinning in the morning. Rebaited traps. Packed in medicines for my move to the scrub with Froston tomorrow. About 5 p.m. the horses & their driver returned from the top camp, bringing a tree climbing kangaroo — the first for the collection and a few examples of the new Dendrolagus bennettianus. The porch through cypress was unoccupied. The "boys" had been saw up for water + saw two up trees. They called for someone to bring a gun, Roy shot one but lost the other. Shot another Nyctophilus in the sawmill shed. Tu. Sep. 7. Skinning tree k., 2 rats & the Nyctophilus. Jack Roberts came with his prizes after lunch. Reck fixed camp on Roswell Creek (see opposite p.) at 3 p.m. Established camp + for out 25 traps. Hunted twice; 6 p.m. to 8 and 9.30 to 10.30. Nothing seen. Walley heard. Wed. Sep. 8. Warm nights. Traps: 2 Delmog, several Rattus. Skinning all a.m. Sixty traps in p.m. Morton, who hunted a.m. or p.m., reported nothing seen or heard. At night went up to hut tents. On way down shot smelly — possibly possum — but couldn't find it. Shot a big lizards, mauled necked Gecko with unusually enlarged tail on the road. Shot a Peramdo close to camp. It squashed a couple of traps, giving me the direction. Finally I caught the faint glow of one of its eyes.

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Mon. Sep. 9.(9) About 20 Rattus + Melomys. Morton shot 2 scrub wallabies (Trygale). No night nothing. Tues. Sep. 10. Eight Melomys + Rattus. Geoff Roy arrived at 11.40. The former plans to come up each morning up down at 8-9 at night. I took Roy + specimen down to sawmill in p.m. Returned at 5.30 Very windy night spoiled jackup. Geoff got a death-adder my 100 ft from camp. Went down about 8. Set. Sep. 11. Boys (Van, Don, Geoff, Roy) due their a.m. Len + Marie passed about 9 on way into rain forest. Traps: 3 Melomys, 1 Rattus, Centrolenius with 7 young attached (By log 150 ft from nearest water) Newcomers arrived about 11.30. Van shot a Pteropus Scapulatus. Revisited in p.m. Let Roy + Don out with Thai jaws (they found nothing!). Don shot a Nyctophilus. Sun. Sep. 12. Today Morton, Ray, Nogie went hunting for just two things: Hypoprymnodon and Pindorylus. They found nothing. In the p.m., after skinning, Van + Don went out far up the north slopes. We found nothing. Traps: Rattus, Melomys. Mon. Sep. 13. Shot a scrub-fawn for Don. In traps: 3 Rattus, 2 Melomys. Van + I took specimens down to the main camp. Re-tailed the light with material + wrapped fielded specimens. Anemoid (11.45 Sun time) = 1550. This anemoid from 1000 ft up has consistently registered 300-400 feet too high. Wed. Sep. 15. Packed up + left Rossville Ck. Camp in 2 relays. Van + Don had shot a Thylogale + 3 leaf-eared bandicoot (Gecko) the night before. Next evening Van took a 5th Nyctophilus in the sawmill. Geoff had found a Tachyglossus walking across the road on the 13th. Thus. Sep. 16. Van + I with the two boys moved out # to Helenville in Jack Roberts' model A Ford in Two relays. Set up a nice little camp right on the Alman River. Lunched at Mrs. Watkin's Hotel.

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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

wally's kangaroos, who Demi: E.W. Parmley worked cliffs in Benthil-Helmsdale area. Alec Jensen - 3 market weight - Coast wally - thousands 12 oz. Swamp - (tryraw) Gray K. Red Wallaroo ? Mt. Wallaroo ? Noted Kangaroos in peninsula Whiptail - Kipp Plains - fairly common. Deep Creek runs into the Dornanby. Butcher Hills Seagreen's Farm (Sidy Jenev) 8-9 mi Toni beyond - 12 Myrood Dr. Lyndon (Ashville Toni) D' Savage - Jim Sarge - Littlef. John Hales Truck.

practically all soil (if there ever was soil) has been eroded out, leaving only the past little circle of rock. We are after rock wallabies (Petrogale). We stay until Tuesday, Sept. 21. Mon Sep.20. Traps out last night, 20 nat, 15 still, produced nothing. All thru, hunted along the base of the granite, afterwards Van & I went thru with jack lights. Saw two "jocky beard" (harded geckos). Very early this a.m. the thru if we went out again (long before sunrise), with equal results. Despite the presence of the spring this area seems almost desert of mammals. I did see dry droppings of wallaroo size, & the night before, up on the rocks, very dry seen- shredded droppings of rock wallaby. After breakfast Norman leads for the Annan River Falls at the end of Black Mt., while Van & I worked around the base to its north & investigated the scrubby place Norman told us of the day before. Almost no signs of rock wallaby. Norman went back to the Annan Pines Dales, where an old native, Friday, had previously taken the rock wallabies, as he returned in the afternoon with one female with a young fiver in her pouch. Her pattern is relating marked: grey; band of tail Fairy feed plains Tanny; tail, Land, feet black. SHR 2 Scotiemi in evening. Tues, Sep. 21. Trapped 1 Rockmops, 1 Satarellus. Went hunt rock wallabies in Annan Gorge - Ponce in camp by 10. Skinned. Norman Wathen & truck arrived 11 - reached Coletting 1.30 p.m. Reopening. Arranged trip to Alderbury (mile 24) for one rock wallabies & Cato to Scaprian Dam (Sat.-Sunday). For premium from Guyt, Bifilta Police to stop town grounds; Van other Tone (a Trichonurus). Wed. Sep. 22. Had talk with Carlton Olive no hunt. Arranged Saturday trip in Donny Savage's pick-up. Seyt Bifilta, ending at his tracker Sammy for weekend. Seen note that on topo to go on Hardman.

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Thu. Sp.23. Rythan at 8 am to Alderbay at mile 25. Van r I walked up to the gorge in sandstone rocks to learn rout. Camped at stelan. Cut in late p.m. Taking 30 Stal traps & our henty lights. No rock wallabies seen + then dropping but several - mars wallaroos. Van shot 2 Petrelus australis. [illegible] Fri. Sep 24. Out bag before sun-up. Traps m.g. Hunted up gorge. No rock wallabies. Saw 2 large jumping wallaroos hopping away fast. Two wallaroos came by opposite side of gorge 200 yard away. Stopped. Fred p. Bullied in a manner of "boxing" after they stood face, close together & seemed to claw- each other shoulders with their fore pairs. Van caught a Scentenus in rough stelan. Left at 9 pm by power-band-car. Stopped at culcuto where 3 Rhesus lypus. Stopped at Seegreen's Farm, 10 mi from. Corkton & crew plans for hunt whiptail. Reached Corkton at 3.30 when found Len Geoff, Dm, for already settled in Commercial Hotel. Sat. Sep. 25. Left Corktown with Donny Savage's truck, bout for Seegreen's Farm. Arrived 11 a.m. Objective: whiptail wallabies. Arranged for "Sanny" Seyt. Griffiths' tracker to go out to John Bully for whiptails also. At 4 pm Van & I went out up the hills - 1 mile west shy the line & then up the east side of a big Bully third, the sandstone-capped hills. Saw Band. Jackip at night: Van 1 flying squirrel. Sun. Sep 26. Out very early - till 11 a.m. - about 6 miles. Van saw 2 wallabies in distance but not entirely whiptails. Several mammals in traps: Rattus columbinus Hydromys, 3 Stal traps Scentenus.

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Mon. Sep 27 Bats out by Van: - 1 Settern 3 Macrophyllae at flowers of Century Plant (Siard). Out after native when - 2 found under falls from stems in middle & red-earth peanut field. Should originally in open forest. With in traps Back to Corteza by noon. Saw Dr. Fod top up m a.m., plane for Cairns Did some packing for ship journey. Tues. Sep-28. Finished packing. Cargo down to boat in a.m. We formed board tonight. Due to said early Wed. a.m., as amir Cairns bed are. Wrote out schedule for RR trip - Cairns or ward. Wed. Sep. 29. Lyn. 5 a.m. Stopped at Blinfield R to take in Lady Bissett, wife of ex-commander of the "Queen Mary". Stopped at Daintree for lunch. Reached Cairns 4 p.m. Thur. Sep.30- Fri Oct 1 Sat Oct 2 Baggage repacked. I terminated my enrolment with Birchfield Exped. and over-night Oct 2. Then went down to the warehouse & bridled cattle all morning. Recommendation Trip re-count by overnight visit to Barwon Waters (trapping) six days. Above accepted Not accompanying Mr. Gallup of "Oam Roads" on study if Windsor Tattler. To start Monday p.m. George Brookes drove me out to stay with Bob Hunter at Barwon Waters. Set 21st at 7 a.m. + 22 next day.

Sta B. Elplus 222° Sta D1 Turkey hills (quartz gully) 202° 30 Elplus 225° Desailly 248.30' Sta D. Armir 56° 30 Turkey hills 206° Elplus 226° Desailly 249 Sta C. McLend-Escape Jctn (camp) 187° Turkey hills 221° Elplus 233° Desailly 254° 30' not Varni 6° E Sta B. Alto 145° 30' McClard-Escape 187° ± Turkey 226° = 232. Elplus 235° Desailly 266 Prospect. Mt Armir Corrected ± □ B 1080 A D 1250 B O 4325 C D 2300 D C 2875 E 4 3000 1" = 4 miles Note: Mr. Gully (main Rook) collected Notoloma in 1932 at Leichardt River Crossing 150 mi from Duketar.

Sun. Oct 3. Caught by a Peranale in very scrub above home & Wrump in kitchen: Porter came again for me at 11. In pm with Van to visit the Heales Mon. Oct 4. Horace picked up my luggage at 10.30 & returned for me at noon. We left - 6 of us in 2 cars - about 1.30 pm. We went up the Cassowary Highway which I visited in March, south the Mt Mollay west to Mt Caroline (Woffen) & continued west to the crossing of the McLeod River near Cunahmore Station, when we split the right. All open country south & west of Juliette. From Mt Mollay town a large mass of granite (Mr Drasen) very prominent. This is the southern tip of a massive chain of intrus rising therefore NNW to Mt Permit. Tues. Oct 5. An early start. Drove up the escape track about 2 miles. Parked the command car, & climbed the ridge between the valleys of the Escape and Spencer. Stockyard (cupp) 7.00 am departed. 1/4 hrs. Stn A.(lycera) 9.45 am. 1278" 4.10 " 1525 35 min. Stn B. 10.20 " 2030 " 3.40 " 2250 45 min. Stn C 11.08 " 2435 " 3.00 " 2630 50 min. Stn D. 12. 12pm. 3020 " ? 1 hr. Stn E 1 pm. 3160 " Started down at 1.50 pm. 3.10 min. up. In camp. 4.30 pm 2/3 day Notrui seen anywhere visible. Rain seep in Spencer & McLeod valleys. Saw Gray Kangaroos (2). Left 2 hrs lots of Wallaroo sign. Wed. Oct 6. Shot 2 Trichosurus, 1 Pseudocerinus last night. Stayed in camp to skin them while G. Gallup this men went out again to search for road. 2 pm collected insects up to Spencer - McLeod Junction. The McLeod supplies virtually all the flies. Left 4 Trichosurus in shot. Plenty of porcupine drippings. My seem to accord to the finds to defeat - at least sometimes, In every crest our jochip is same area. Collected a & Pseudocerinus (with 2 pel yy). Saw & left Unmolested 5 Trichosurus.

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Then. Oct 7. Stemid the Pseudochens. Then in turn camp & return to Cairns. Sept Cup 8.30. Reaches Cairns at 3 -pm. Refeckig for departure in a.m. Fri. Oct 8. This marks third resumption of the recommencer trip. Lipt. Cairns by 10 a.m. Trial for Townsville, which arrived at at 7.30 pm. Bellenden Ker clouded. No rain known - Very dry everywhere. Mountain of Coast advance & recede. Man just m. y Cardwell. Another s. f. the Tully R. The Tully valley fairly gum, as is that of the Herbert. In latter case mountains out of sight. Seen one mtn of Scaview Ra (Mt Spec). Vegetation Semi-Scrub as far as Tully, mixed with tree sends & patches of grass. Further south it is all open forest. Necessary to draw the rain-forest lines on a grid map, as small scale maps will not accommodate. Sat. Oct. 9. Train for Mt Isa leaves 11 a.m. On this trip alone see only the Terrain as far as Pentland & for Warrigal which the train reaches just at dark. At day break I shall be at Julia Creek (398 mi). Due at Mt Isa Cloncurry (481 mi) at 9.40 a.m.; Mt Isa (608 mi) 3.15 p.m. Oct 10th First 2 hours. Through broad open forest, Plate gradually rising. Hills begin to encroach on either side, just before descent to open valley of Reid River (35 mi.). All very barren & dry! This basin is separated from the Bundekin R by a low pass & the Lochard Range - higher part (982 ft) at Mungela. The Bundekin is passed near Macrossan (793 ft+ + 69 miles out of Townsville). Sed hawtay cap-rocks to s. between Reid & Bundekin Haytham Valley (photo - looking SE). 2 To co-mutter for success, hills. Summit plat- (pringle). The Bundekin is an enormous river - close to Macrossan (70 1/2 mi), crossed by a high steel bridge. Its bed is broad, flat & well sand

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Water in it (Oct) is reduced to disconnected water pools. Charter Towers dusty barren, a bandoned feed flow. Few gummy shrubs. No rain since Sept March 12 months. (Dried ravioli last week) (Now, as there is plenty of pine forest a mile extra side I think the little track must have been cut for timbering stops & tunnels, Mile & feet canty beyond Charter Towers. Gidgea Portaloo 10 -) Begin to climb again after Honeysuckle. Pentland 1323ft. dried flat - few scottland trees. A few scottland hills to n & e 8-10 mile away. Miss Neatoison collected Rock Wallabies fern. Next, Dad Frederick, former main roads man, has lived at Ravenshire. Thinks he remembers Harry Rave. He claims they found Eudromia along Cook Highway, Green Pommard flowering (etc.) - Mirlanda & Herberta (C/ punching only). Phalapide caygar at Charter Towers & Blackall. Pick gajish skin young. Opposite fruit orchards and 20 miles E of Haydendon - Whiptail as far as Cloncurry. Plague in 1945 Haydendon to Cloncurry. Rats (We were was shovelled with dead rats) Plague of 12 months. West of Tenterfield, climb few rocky hills to divide - three very small & dange - Lancewood. Also to Ian Park & Blackwood. Warrigal - Taken on second engine to cross range. At Obiinda the line passes from plain country back to scottland forest. Feds. King, Grafton of Bros. King, 4c. Hardware at Denton Bay. Lancewood & Bridgea pecularia orchard.

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Sun Dec 10. 6a.m. Tuba Creek,- Widesp. Pritchell grass county with an occasional snail tree. Bents to dry from color. No creek. 8 a.m. Scotland burke- Pantanal alay gracles. (Euras Steve 8.30 Creek. Incusout Trans burke. 8.35 Undina - Scotti Mitchell pears + Sidge, Dead feet. 8.4r Red quartz sill near Chantry burkes Gately, & Quinles glass on the ridge. Spine? 29?? [illegible] Robyter. A peculian plan L large kumocks 9.00 Pymcura pr statue. Betty cards. Hills to south - outposts of Clonary system 10° Small game along Clonary River - low hills 7 Wristone about. Between Dr. Ormida Americo a few small rock outcrops- Scotland "spine" clumps. Yoomob any walk hills - morning! 21.3mi- Indel "spine" Malbon N.G.- all feet. Flat anticline of white shale (? dolomite?) at 520° Scattered flat type hills 8hrs directed pumplin- Holo N.Cars at 536. Clonky - again flaky g "spine" ex' Rocky Butte top (S.s.?) 8547 Duffess - Hotel - Rocky Hill - Spine. 27% Dry creek. Temporary increase in vegetation; some tilter. Rife Creek area mmichig. Train arrived 1hr. late. Difficult to pt int. hotel. Very crowded - Sprite teams. To my astonishment a sandstorm whil speedily changed & rain came over the town at 6.30 [illegible] The big onion very impressive - Danaga, W. Knutt schmitt.- Chaff Lead, Zinc, + some Copper. 12a Hotel Manageress Miss O'Grady. Spent evening with Mr. & Mrs. Knutt schmitt. To see Mr. Bern, School Teacher an children's library grounds. Then to Riple Creek to Watts for day or so.

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Mon Oct 11. A cool a.m. (66°) & dense mist like fog which was actually suspended dust. Visited the children's school (principal, Mr. Parsons) to learn whether kids had seen any mammoths. Several stood forward. They were to try hunting this p.m., I am to pay 6¢ for each specimen brought in. One boy said he had seen traces of Spring Fartests. Then up 6' to the mine, where Mr. -- took me out to see some small natural caverns. One, 70 ft. deep, had plant 1 dropping & rock walls & a few of wallabies. No bats. Other holes too small. After level back to the mine & searched in no 1 (200 ft.) level for possible skeletons & into which crowded into the tunnel during the 1940 rat plague. None found, but picked four skeletons off the ceiling of the 85' ft. level. Discrepancy in the stories of the rat plague: Some thing migration. Others random movement. Poor supporting migration dislogue & on the question of direction. Next Mr. J. H. Bates, who has just returned from Puebloville, S.W.Q. says a rat plague is actually in progress there. Am with Police Officer Harry Ormsby, Police Stn., then to try obtain specimens. Evening: To dinner with Mr. & Mrs. Kruttschnitt. Mr. Bates also recalled what would seem to be Antediluvian when he was a boy out at Belden, 90 mi. S. of Dojana. It was in the loose bank of its ford of a fence post toward All preparation made for me to go up 6' to the dam at Rifle Creek, 4y.2d! Walter. A Car will pick me up at 10.15. a.m. Spinifex seen & felt for first time today. Dined with Mr. & Mrs. Kruttschnitt.

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Tues Oct 12. Lift for Rifle Beck at 11 a.m.; and 11.30. My Mr. Watts very cordial. Work out or damned up lake in some from 1/2 to 1/4 brought lunch. The creek normally dried up before the dam was built. There is a catchment area of 16 sq. miles, with water caught lasts over several dry seasons. Last year the dam did not overflow. It has overflowed to a depth of 4 feet. Going up the lake, which winds among steep rocky hills, we saw 2 gray, white cheetahed Wallabys. Watts says that a hunter recently shot one 80 animal of which 3 were gray kangaroos, the rest wallabies. No red wallaby found. Some quite dark-blackish. Have found 3 or 4 wallaby skulls up gully Spirit Creek, in which is a tiny perpetual spring. Tapping: - 25 maid traps up said gully any rocks & spinifex grass. (No catch); also 25 above the dam, partly high up at the foot of the cliffs, partly at the highwater mark of the lake (briefly 1922) (and more). A few traps in bush (1 none). Evening: with flashlight saw 4 sick wallabies at water. After we found another in my steel trap. Dr. Watts trapped yet another using lettuce & bread for bait, 2 more. At dusk saw one bat - missed it. Wed. Oct 13. Ran tracks, but on to two small caves seen in side of hill edge 5/4 mile above dam. First Cave: - Hummingbird remains of 2 wallabies, "joy" wallaby, 1 kid. Second cave: - Skin & other portion; two large gray Tapirawns, toll collected. The mice parturied above a pale gray form, larger than house mice, with the bases of the tails fattened - thick- skinned. Perhaps a water storage mechanism. No tails drawn out clearly & the scaly + muscular skin not such thickness. They reminded me of Lemmings. Ratlike form seen across top of hills in "fresh tracks", His mice. Skinnier mice, bats, wallabies. Dust takes carries Tommas. "Regans rat" said by Watts to occur out on the spinifex flat, "Patricial" at Quarry.

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Thur. Oct.14. Picked up traps: another was well by which I failed to shun; still another while I shunned. They get into traps very easily. Also traps:- an old Lady (?), a Snithspai, fat-tailed with 6 proud young; and a lone mouse. Dinner packing at 3.30. Mr. Watts drove down to the station by 4.30. Shore I got a break - found a 10" sleeper attached to the "morined", so had good night's sleep. Fri. Oct.16. Day back in time before we reached Dalia Creek. Mitchell Brou country. Dead flat. Fareleft at Nelia - still flat Mitchell pass country- Locally regazed in place. One man who said there is a species of possum at Spring Creek - some 15 miles N.W. of Mt Isa, Nonda has been trees & low shrubby bushes, compared with the almost bare country about Nelia (368 mi) It is also higher: 520 ft, compared with 465 ft at Nelia. Maxwellton is all grass over now. Tolpuddle. Trees, grass, a quashing bore - cattle. Semoka:- Guns + tents! Richmond: Small town on Flinders R. Boiling water bore. Stress factors. County 2, 3 Richmond twenty & but more rolling, Train Leo Hocker to go up 4.50. 3.30 pm. Still Mitchell pass. Two turns. Tired ridge- to NE, (especially two turns of Flinders R). Moorella - Mitchell Pass much grozed. The bignidge is across the Flinders R. 20 miles away. Dr. Shuttle gun. NlyE to NE±. (275 mi), 5.30pm. End of ridge about due N. Still in grass. This ridge joins the basin or very near, it comes from And lots (8.00pm) at Huphardon. In bright moonlight walked down to the Flinders R.- 200 yards wide, a dry bed of sand with temporary water and crossing it. A bridge under construction. Visited O. & Police St. to try to trace Gabrielle Newhaven Scott (who collected Drahmore fern). Found Mr. Scott's former prospecting partner - Mr. Mottershed.

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He said the Scotts lived until last April for Tonnwill When they lived in for the "Country Women's" but till July. Derek Mrs. S. Fink be got out at Selwyn (Carpenter + well-driller), while she with the children went to Brisbane. He has given her address could to find either at the B.P.O. or to museum. The Police Sgt told me that the place where The fossil "near Hylandon" was taken out was Stamford, on the Winter Line. Stamford is 38 miles from Hylandon. Sat Oct 16. Train for Winter left at 6.36 (1/2 hour late). Instead felt - bare. A forested plateau (broad?) a few miles east. Much dust haze in air. Not. Alla, Sleep status - not too keenly grazed. The County became completed tree less. Mitchell Pass. Beyond Warianna the Mitchell Grass downs are much overgrazed. Stamford suffering sections drought. Apparently no one can find I discovery of fossils here! Chilbi - slight improvement in grass. From basaltic? or schist clay? - bordered patches, some with conchoidal fracture. Dead animal with little bones. Whitewood - heavily grazed + notices. Taravina, Sleep status. Mitchell pass very too bad Silvers Corfield (limestone place). Deer completed about. Deer. Pronounced mirages to N. Minosa tree and wind storm! tree photos. A pod-aced "willy-willy" (dear storm) west of Oli plotoad. Oligo group less grazed. A drigo (reddish tone), a mile NE of Lara (denmark) Prelbi. District kills (Tate but ?) about 20 miles ↑ 3 Obndonoo - bare barren. Tablelands improved I asked directed fragments. The hills are fairly pale sandy tones - possibly a clay. The first hill due left at 356 miles. [illegible]

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The railway passed through the eastern part of the range. There is granite and open forest of pines, others are nearly bare. Top of gap at ± 388. Another is sedimentary - this forms (1 mile) and is directly east of Kangaroo State (260 mi). From the rock wallaby country. (Winter all 8 miles apart). Tableland (centuries?) 824 10 mi to S.W. Also (across waterfalls) a fault diagonal across elevated area to S.E. This must be towards Mt Alice + Mt Leichard. Arrived Winter 3:30 p.m. in time for the expedition & conductor to open the "Melbourne Cup" on the radio. After a bath went to present letter of introduction, joined me by Mr. Watts, to Mr. Venn. He in turn gave me the address of people who might have some local knowledge, and afterwards presented one at the Winter Club, written D. Bell to Tomm see if any steel now information. Venn's list of gramophones (reported): Kangaroos (various) Wallaroo, rock wallabies in hill country (Royal) Dingo Khyawoo mine {Waltznot in a wattle in a creek 30 mi west. Porcupines Bardicote (still ?) Despills Byrnes drayman & the last and winter brigade of all fodder, mugs with a flag about me in the hotel so I will. Fri. Oct. 17. Arrived sleepers to get me to Brisbane the evening of the 20th. Said + brogas. These queer birds came right into town after food & water. To the boat to write letters. Mon. Oct. 18 - Left at 8 a.m. Due E., leaving Raylands to N., passing between them the "distant tableland" alluded to on Saturday. After then tables appear to the remaining dissected fireplain. Small hill level at 530 miles; eastern tip of big tableland level at 523 523 [illegible] Clips (rock wallaby) 528

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There's much more of the Tableland to the west to S? SSE.- 20-25 miles away. To extreme eastern tip level with 505 miles; 10-15 miles to SE. 498 mi. Another block of Tottelgeld to SSE - 25 mi. The Tableland grass still grazed down almost to zero. E. of Chongon the land NW gentle so clearly prazant but no wood, Small cotlitch trees along dry creek beds. An occasional windmill (489 mi). Morella (level: the cup of tea + the next pie or sandwich), all grass virtually gone; 3 carloads of sheep attached to this train. "Main Roads" doing good work on this winter-longrock highway = culvert bridges re. Inhabitants say they work much too slow. 450? miles, Increase in the number of trees (Payne sta.) Latitude modules: 45°4½, Many trees (all sorts) then cut for fence posts. 450- More Mitchell grass fodder. Derothania again. But plant a short way N. Descending. Large water hole at 447. County was gullied for N-S. Darr. Plant your seed word with the aforeaid permanent water, but feel all used up. E. of Pan-Cai, Sandy. Some seen already there. 442½ Cow Creek at 450°33'. Crossed. Complete change from grass country to Winters. Low 85 ridge to N.-? 50-100 ft. (5 miles away). Just before reaching Longrock crossed two water filled channels of the Thompson River, Not flowing but way extras lid within holes (three mains. Long Rock) Trapped by this (4ft wide) tufts of a fern stand shut resemble like our Kerria, but different. These could well make smaller streams. The intricacy of the Thompson river just except for channels with a crape family, white. It looks as though in flood times it filled up completely. Longrock much more picturesque and the limits. Plot of flowering shrubs. A big with Town field. Part of the stream. County Pro back to eaten-up condition - Mitchell Guess all why 4-5 are old die.

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Tue, Oct. 19. From Barcelona to Tenebo, Dynamo Tred (6 p.m.). The land is called "departainty" — mostly bare & sandy. Humus for ferns? at least 4" thick as much but in the Titled at often this — broad — 15" to 2 ft. A band and more forest on sandy soil but there was a far open pattern. Got no view of the western slope of the range — Tirich, Alberta etc. About 10:30 p.m., passed thick forests with fairly low white sediments rocks of the life Devils — Drennan and Adams Gap etc. At dawn in rough country with layer out. Shortly afterward large cliffed hills to S. near Bluff (106 mi). County line of his artif., frosted. A good bit of erosion. 49-50 mi. Lots of big prickly pear bushes in them — would not mass. Shot the known 3 shales, dipping stagily. Terrain very broken, deeply fulling. 4:00 a.m. Sogango — Open plate. Snow hills ahead. Saw no sign of rain forest. [illegible] — 16-80 mi E of Clermont — 2 mi X 50. Bear 50 mi. E of Clermont. Arrived Phoenix 11:40. Was lucky enough to get a berth this time on the 12:15 for Bisbee. Saw the manager & luggage. Stage Bimond at station asked me to buy some books for him. "The Wind of the Mind" J.B. Philips "Seven Gothic Tales" Isaac Dinesen with Constable J.J. Philips (43p. page) We looked at Clermont, intended in Nat. Hist., Stimmas said a certain Oswald Nottoc. found & Lock (tea) at Gladden. Left Quachapin at 12:18 p.m. Any policeman Gave me address (43p. page) of his friend Steel, who is in Tucson in Nat. Hist. Ponaban at 6 a.m. at Pima crjld man — for their catalogues (see next page). Notes continue. [illegible] Lisbon 20'

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J Extracts from Mammal Reptile Cat. Queensland Muns. 1911, 20, July 5 11-14 Echidna ducate Woodford, Q, 50 mi n. Portora Sep 2 4-19 Phasc. crenium " 21 11-20 Tach. aulicius " NW. Prokai 21 4-26 Acritotis pygmaeus Whordai, 100 mi N. of Prokai 200 29 36 Phasc. crenium Blackalls Ra. Dec. 29 41 Pseudoch. perquini Toronto 1912 Tran 23 85 Ps. " Terror's Ck, n. of Dayboro, nw fr SE.Q. Frith " 86 Phasc. penicillalis " " 87 P. Volens " 27 90 Perophyta lajotis Surrat, SW of Dally, Belmore R. Apr. 25 104 Stenotus otola Tennis Ck, 27 105 Peramela rante Portora " May 9 120 Trichs. vulpula Woodford June 11 144/3 Hypoprymna rosseta Yungaburra " 146/7 Dendrhippa lumbretta Carno Distn Aug 31 307 Dendrhypha bernettiana Daintree R. Type Sep. 13 337/8 Pseudoch. perlittans Yungaburra 14 339/21 " Elmuvids Yungaburra 14 342/3 " arctei Yungaburra 17 344 Trichs. v. johnstoni Yungaburra 17 345/6 Ps. Chromoils Yungaburra 17 347 T. v. johnstoni Yungaburra Oct 3 257 Tachylyon Warwick 17 379 Acryphymus Wondford. Noose Heads, Coote River 22 384 Peramela rante (?) Papua 29 385/7 Smith. irupia. ? Papua 29 388 Dactylapsis t. Hahat R Nov. 22 568/10 Acritotis furcalis Herbert Surge 26 571 Thescos macdonnellii Alice Spipo (Spine Coll) 26 572 Pintch. Serapinta Charlotte Water ( " ) 26 573 crioticicide " 26 574 Notorypha, " 26 575 Phasc. muntrooni Q.? (6 qm inch) 1913 Jan 9 671 Phasc. gillespiei Proonia R., St George, Q Dec. 1 755/ Ps. arctei Herbert R. Dist. 1 756 " pertatunis " 1 757 " perquini " 7 774/8 D. lunkotri " √ 8 778 Trichs. vulpula Rebecca Q 9 799 Peram. rante Portorfield, Q

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1915 June 24 2402-3 Pet volans. Burdokay 2404 Scoterni virgulata Sep. 13 2526 Trilomys Cape York 2527 " Rockhampton 2528-33 Heriot Vale, nr. Cardwell Feb. 21 2521 Phascolarctos Murrumburra Oct. 21 2562 Trusentrum hirsutum Darwin Nv. 23 2634 Proc. jujurita Victoria, Tasmania 2635 " Dorsali 2636a " valulatus 2636 Phascolarctos Dec. 15 2641 Nyctophilus Dorothy Feb. 2 2699 Hydromys Mt. Tamborine 2700 Sm. cruris. Murweh, S.W. Pl. Dec. 14 2704/8 P. vittatus Glenormiston Mts Mar 24 2734 Ochistophus Currumbin, Q ? Apr 14 2739 AcTechromys 14 2740 Ph. pinnicellis Brisbane dist. Apr 20 2743-4 Pet. vittatus Woodford Q July 7 2783 Das. maculatum Miva, N.C. Line 12 2784 P. gracilis Lord'sford, N.C. Line 2789 Trilomys Mt. Tamborine Aug. 22 2794 Phas. planipes Toary Peaks, nr. Gladstone Sept. 21 2816 Dendro macrura Tasmania Dec. 20 2884 Nyctophilus grudi Corlwin, 22 2835 Phas. planipes Eumerini Feb. 27 2865 P. vittatus Yandania Jan. 6 2873 Ph. pinnicellis Nana, Tocumta 2928/9 Pet. scirucus Sunnybank, S.Q. July 24 2962 Pseudopogonophoroides Pittsworth, Dist. 30 2968 Smith's Crag Cundamina Plains, Protested Woodford Oct. 1 3045 Acertata Oct. 31 3052 Helmetium fardinii Cape York Type Nov. 13 3069 Notomys mitchelli Mulgildie Sta, via Eildorod 3070 Hydromys 3071 Acertus Nov. 26 3082-3 Sacc. flaviventris Eildorod. 27 3076 Phas. minutus Pittsworth Dist. Dec. 3 3097 Ps. perpinnis Bauple, via Dayboro Jan. 8 3109/10 Smith's Virginia Hampton, near Rockey

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Feb. 2 3130 Nyctophilus Terrinum Brisbane Mar. 15 3145 Melongyna Darwin (Clare St) 19 3146 Tachypterus E. rossii (Brisby) Apr. 20 3156 D. scouletta Burdekin Dist 22 3158 Aculeatus Murgalollie via Roma May 27 3168 P. puncillata Towong June 4 3174 Aculeatus Philomena, Darly Downs 14 3176 " Warwick 170mi w T.B. 26 3179 I. mannii Corkett 3180 I. straussi Brisbane July 23 3184 Hydrurga Clermont Sept. 6 3195/6 Mac. ruficollis Stanthorpe Q Oct 17 3209 Tachypterus Silvia spuri, S, Q. Dec. 31 3237 Srinthopos lunulatus (spirits) Corkett 1919 Jan. 9 3241 I. orarius Amity Pt. Stad broke! Feb. 1 3251 M. wilcoki (stool) Tantrumine Oct 10 3261 Ph. minutissima Tantrumine Feb. 28 3270 Aculeatus Barnard, G.Q. Damp Valley Mar. 31 3273 Ph. flavipes Canungrie, S. Tantrumine Plateau Apr. 30 3283 Tachypterus New Towong Sept. 5 3331 Tuck. vulp. Keigary 60 min. B Line Oct 31 3342 Aculeatus Landsboro, N. C. Line Nov. 30 3345 Ph. minutissima (47 y) Mundubbera Dec. 16 3358 Aepypterus Towong 22 3359 Pt. Scapulatus Dalbydilla 1920 May 31 3386 P. volans Thulimbah, B.S. S. Luci July 15 3404 Phascolarctus (shoes) Bribie Isl., M. Bay Oct 14 3436 Nyctinai tryoni Canungrie, S. Q. Type July 2 3511 Sm. cross. Sarah, N.S.W. Sept. 23 3533 Lepidectes c. lichardti Toronto Creek (Trent Hills), 3534 Aepypterus 180m., w. of Tonnville 3535 P. infantula 3536/7 " Willimatta 3538 " ruga Sept. 29 3544 Das. fallicatum (stool) " Oct 6 3548 T. vulpiceps " 3549 Aepypterus Stanthorpe 3554 P. puncillatus " Oct 24 3554 Lyrat Bulgoosta, Adavels, W. Q.

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trond conurpa Nrr.1. 3586 Acridata Logon Village, S.Q. 19 Jan.19 3585 M.styphlia temporalis Rockhampton Frar 4 3576- Petamorpha volans Starthope 3601 Tachinoma vulpula 3611 D.fallaxeius Inkersman Apr.10 3623 Ps. papyria Paddington, Brisbane Apr.19 3625 Mel. chrysopterus claus Cedar Creek 3627 Hydromys 3628 Phascellus (Stubb) Mt Gloucein, 30mi W.N.B. May.18 3636 P. pipericidella Buderim, N.T., S.Q. - June 12 3650 D. janyi Burrabook, S.Q. 3652 D. dorsalis Westward, via Rockhampton June 29 3657/60 Pet. viridula Katarn 3661/n Derda, limbolotri Evelyn 3663/4 Pet. v. minor 6mi S.W., q Ravondre 3667/8 T. johnstonei Evelyn 3669/70 P. cirrusrilis 3671 " terbitatuma 3672/3 Ph. johanni (Co.T.) 3675 M. curvini maculatus (?) Balbirida July 20 3688/9 Sm. crassic Westward, via Rockhampton 3691 Dm. fijarilus Welltown, 30mi N.T., S.Q. Aug.2 3685/6 Peltigera Lockerbie Creek, Murdunna 3697-3700 Sm. duficollis 7 3701 " walechius 3702/3 " dorsalis 3713 " wilsoni 3718 Acridata Clermont 3716 Ph. flavipilus Tamborine Aug.7 3719 Acridata Yarraman, Brisbane Valley Line 18 3720 M. giganthus Boradiriundi, 5mi S.T., St.George 200 28 3724 Acridata Corrinda, Colosseum, N.C.Lee Sep.6 3726 Aegyptoporus Cinted Kerry, via Beardwood Oct.4 3735 Sm. crass Toowoomba Oct.24 3737 Acridata Horse Creek 1923 Mar.21 3784 Hydromys lyropari Dinnin Creek 3785/90 all Dinnin Creek forms 3798 Tachylyra Rockhampton Apr.14 3800 Dm. janyi Westward

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Mitchell 3813/5 M. fijarlintus (shale) Old Cashmere, S.W.Q. 3816 Ph. cinerea " " " Subtrop. Briton 3822 D. maulahis Zillmere Q. 3824 Ph. minutissima Roma 3826 M. dorsalis Boonie R, St. Beny. Dist 3832/3 Ph. cinerea Bowen 3835/6 R. coriatus typotype Arrman R. 3839-40 M. fijarlintus Merwen, W.Q., n. Mitchell 3842/5 M. dorsalis Darling Dns. 3850 Tachypleus Boorah (no 3845) Bederin R.T., Q, 3853 D. fallacitum Marootty R, Yarina 3855 Tachypleus Bellmu Ste., S.Q. 4004 Tachypleus Torrilla, n. Richd. 4006 M. lufun Julia CR 4007 Toch, Rrora 4024 Cal. gouldi Old Cashmere, Mitchell 4032 Ph. minutissima Tanarce, nr Symple 4064 M. erutescens Hyland Dst 4069 S. flavipectus Cowan Cmn, Fontm. Dsl. 4072 Peltoplea jodmani 15 mi E Q Mein 4074-6 Pattiungyi Paratym Cowan Cmn, Fontm. Dsl. 4082 M. apillii Eutanaunce, Cairns Dist, 4091 M. fijarlintus S. Lathk Dsl, Dent Bay 4100 Dectydyplea Tolga 4101 " Yurajahna 4102/3 Petro prymnerthi 50 mi N.W of Dajana 4105/6 Ph. minutissima Purga, Q. 4109 M. fijarlintus Stedbrok Ds. 4110 M. phalolatus " H113 M. apillii " 4123 P. bubicipes Tantamine Dst 4199 Acrostatis Eyllistre, 33 mi n. Townsville 4165 M. fijarlintus Gilbert Rays, via Heylanden 4166/70 Midoventus (rainif. ferens) " 4196 M. thetis (shale) Bunleigh Heads, S.Q. 4988/4212 Goebelana whicha Bonta Cq 4214 Psect. Australis Lake Saltee, N.Q. 4215 " Patrins Walvolid Belyander Thompson River 4237 Myotis australis Kangaroo Pt, 93'6m

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4238. Primiophtera schreiberi Kanyaroo Pt, F.B. 4239. Sminthopsis "leucopus" Spur of McPherson Ra. (Parish [illegible]). 4270/1. Planope 4272. Pet. semireus Caley, 10 mi SW of F.B., Leg. Gen. Mr Killarney, 4285. 4290. Trichosurus caninus Worthing, N.S.W. Q 4291/2. Pet. leucardatus Ndprom 4296/7. P. volans W.Borie, Mqjain Dis' 4298. Mac rufuscttus " " 4299. " wilkowi" Mt Stanley, Knyaroy Dist 4318. Isoodon macoma Eagle Jct., Pohdene 4323. M. theta Mt Stanley, Knyaroy Dist 4324. M. donnali " " 4328. P. volans Knyaroy Dist 4333. Tachyg, Ask Lbrde, Q (Benthe NW) 4337. Hydromys Too Wong 4336. Aenictus Tamborine 4338. Min. schreit, S/ant thops. 4339. Dros. circulatus Tamborine 4345/7. Acinodalo + 2 yg, Capalla, Cleveland Rd., Smith curr. Mitchell 4355. Phascelarcta " " 4356. 4631. Tryadenia Olson's Cun, Rockh. 4622. T. vulpulae " " 4374. Ph. minutissima Bidgeeran, Q, 150 mi NNW. 4389. Acriteta Steadbarn 4395. M. nolabrant Kuranda 4419. Nyctophilus trivirans Enogpoo 4411. [illegible] Isoodon macoma Tamborille 4412. Syconyctis Ende, Q 4418. Aenictotus St George Dist, Q 4429. M. mufus diminutalis Canunga, Q (Valley 30-40) 4430. Acriteta " " 4447. Peta. lagunae Pauntys 4448. " wilkmani" " " 4450. Nyctimisi typhus Port McLeay 4460. Phascelarcto Rip S., Barr St. 4468/9. Peta. celdia Amatthalla, via Charlinville 4471. Min. schreberii Tonsbille 4472. Chol. goldii Cundulah 4473. Scot. gregii Rockh,

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4476 Petrophila jullien 4482/4 Onychopleura maculata 4508 Das. obcalvatum 4518 P.B. lam. orchestra Pauli 4519 Per jullien 4520 " ferbata Pauli 4521 P.S. lam. oralis - 4522 Das. tallimenta Pauli 4523 Das. tallimenta Pauli 4524 A. " nisus " 4534 Phasugli 4535 Sac. planiventer 4536 T. vulpula 4573 Pet. penicillata 4574/1" Dr. Panyi Das. tallimenta 4577 " " 4578 4580 Petrophila 4581 Pt. jullii 4610 D. granulatua 4612/13 Ph. granulata 4627 Pet. scinum 4638-40 M. Wustina 4641.2 S. planiventer 4643 P. rolma 4651 Nyet tumida Seppogi Bicartelle, Aigues 4652 Scriptula guyi de l'Inflarks 4666 Helmya ceramips 4668 Phascol. cin 4671 Nae. cellulata 4672 Hydurga 4693 Dendron domus 4695 Phao. pin. 4698 Smith Cross 640y 4699/4705 4706 Scoternis guyi orinflualis 4708 Nyctin ariptochus 4722 Irae. interrei 4723 Pter. scopulata 4727 P. volvum var. 4738 Porcupia Sage, Hygden Scalpels 1rijm + Merdilletten Eotobarrum, Bendity Ditt Sterges R., N.W. Tobena C. Eidavat Kip Ruin, N. Terr. Pothomstung, C Q C. Creek (Coy. Yuke) Ersta Ei Graporn Homebank, m. Mockety Townsville Murdilben Sagondah, nw 220 mi PB, Kingpt Townville (84g. -p.) Fragrete Ds. Townville Townsville Ozley, Brisbane Barton R. Seeburg, Q (Pastan 8 min) Coombtollu Kinross, Brisbane Csw, 10 mi Bicartelle, Aigues " " Stadshoke Toolbul Pt., Coborttune Damil Pt., Stadsha 1s Inmyfard Taringa, Brisbane Barcelotti, Lynne " " Poisntann Barkly Hh.60mi S Q Enryzima, Bankton " " Rivanna, Halst R.,

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Balonne Rir 4742 Nyctan tyra Watelpark, N.C.Lin 4754 Chol. niphogrusia St.Serge, G.S.W.Q 4765 Otter. pen. Alderly, Brisbane 4778 Smooth cras. Boortan Sta.,St.Serge) √ 4781/2 Trich camminus Calor(Trug),30mi 4784 Isorder Emis Jaid 4812 P. animilis Tarnbume 4813 " lutultrin 4817 Potamos tritachytylus (fry skull) " 4820 Das falluceta Townsville 4826 Acrorata Sin Sin, Q (Gyprie) 4830 Pk. penice Carpentria, S.E.Q), 20 mi. 4831/2 Onychophila fracenta Dawson R. 4833 M. papillina 4834 " lutultra 4838 Potamos 3 duct. (vic skull) Warrochydore, S.E.Q 4839 Ptn. pardoxus Telemin, Beaudin 46 mi 4855" Ptn. Serpul. Cornortolo 4863 Aepypternus Pickstarlpts 4865 Petig., animiles " 4868 Chol. niphogrusia St.Serge, 4882 P. lam orali Probl. 4889 Aepypternus Cornortolo 4890 M. valobitus 4891/2 Pet. punicellata 4893 M. Panyi 4902 Pardolua Mackay 4907 Isorder " 4947 Elptorici pumilus Stanthops 4967 Phal maculatus Dilox Isl., 15 mi for Sangraii 4975 Smi cross Dartmouth, 11fract SE Paper 4978/83 Smiththrops luna firla (C2) Barcorth, Leynail 4999 Nyctan australis Towore Priolan 5001 Scot. ruppelle " 5009 Acrorata Wallumbilla, S.W.Q 5015-8 Chol. syrjipu Cleveland 25 mi S.E.P.B. 5028 Per. srygrosus Nullarbor Plains, S.Auat. 5047 Phascit. Syrjipus (in camren) 5061 Aciwtata Borrel, n Ipswich √ 5075/6 Trich vulpule Chatspigo 5078 Aepypternus Enoggera, Bristers

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5081 Dasya hallucatus Berson Ra. (Jeffra 5713/6 Pseudopsis delicatula ? Barcata, Lepuck 5168 Tachyglus 5193/4 Smirithopis (alei) 5166/8 Petropus puebla Petrel 5189/90 M. rhodosticta 5192 T. vulp. Cornorhirtis, 5218 Phascolomus Worthford, 50mi nw PB. 5222 Grapheia, 80m Brisbane 5236 Tachyglus Maxwelton, Clering Line 5264 N. tayoni Rockhurts Crack 5272 P. gouldii Palm Id. 5273 P. Scap. 5274 Nyctiflor 5275 Hydromys 5314 Nyctemius tayoni Crosby 5331 Acritas Tambor, Callidi Valley, 5349 Billy tul Mullegan R 5383 Sm. cras. Kitt Hartt, Quilpui 5387 D. maculata Stanthorp 5889 Pet dunciceps Narbour (1932) 5392 Acritas Pechey, Turonan 5422 Phascoderm mitchelli Stanthorp 5431 Acritus Kilroy 5433 Nyct. rapholensis Prio 5444 Tachygl. Sunnytark 5459 Smir virginica ?? Garonna, Tulia Ck 5461/2 Acritas Gnil End, Warwick 5494 Macrod. sepia Camberwood 5476 Ept daillyi Grochhewn Ra. 5483 Phas. plicie Burry Park, Dally 5486/73 Tachygl. Woodlawn 5576 Blackall 1934 5609 Maliny, S.E.Q 5631 Chol. gouldi Cotton Vall, 20 Amiens, S.Q 5647 Phil. Plenips Champ Gotes 5670 Pat Seminum Bunten (Mt Neko Rd) 5708 Smirith opus Clup Mt 5728 Acritas Frontassa D.D., S.Q 5732 P. volans Rango, 50 PB. 5749 Phasedactes Pudelkens 5774 Minivipia austalis.

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5780 · D maculatus S.E.Q. Nogo Junct, Ceratodus 5804 Acro. Pomona N.C.LINE 5808-13 Macr. Ruf. TELEMON STA. N.W.Q. 5825 Pseudomys cf patros Helsey Cr. Proserpine 5835 Phas. Pen. NUMINIBAH VALLEY S.E.Q. 5838 Tachy. ALBION (BRISBANE) 5843 Phas. flavipes (9 yr) CLOSEBURN via DAYBORO 5861 Drom. unicolor Lam. Nat. Pr. (O'Reilly's) S.E.Q. 5873 Acro. NANANGO 5884 Tachy. Bowen Hills Brisbane 5885 Hypsi. YARRABAH 5898 Sm.in. leucopus NUMINIBAH via NARANG 5913,14 " murina HAZELDENE via KILCOY 1936 5923 Scot. Greyi " RUTHVEN" ISISFORD C.Q. 5928 Sm.in. murina SPLINTER CR. BANCROFT (BURNETT) R. 5931 Acro. INGLEWOOD 5932-4 " GREENBANK (NEAR BEAUDESERT) 5938 Pseudomys m. flav. BARCAROLE 5952 Macroderma g. PALMerville, P.Riv. C.YORK 5967 Iso. macr. (Shull) IMBIL S.E.Q. 5971 M. wilcoxi EMU VALE via WARWICK BARCAROLE 5987-92 Gyomys berneyi (holotype) " 5997 Notomys a. regin. RYWUNG W.L. 6012 Phascogole min. GURGEENA via GAYNDAAH 6013 Acro. TEWANTIN S.E.Q. 6045 Phasco. flav. COOROY 6059 Acro. WINDSOR, BRIS. 6067 Nyti. norfol. BALLENDEN S.Q. 6080 Phas. min. BOWEN DIST. 6096 Phascolarctos PINE RIV. S.E.Q. 6098 Onitho. TAMBORINE MT. 6144 Rhinol. m. RETRO, CAPELLA Q. 6184 Nyct. Gouldi MITTAGONG N.S.W. 6203 Phas. mitchelli EPPING FOREST STA. CHERMONT DIST. 6239-40 Wombat UPPER NERANG S.E.Q. 6242 Phas. flav. MT. MOLLOY 6248-50 Hypsi. MT. SPURGEON 6251 P. Pere. (2 ph.yg.) CLYDE CREEK 6257 Petro. penic. (?) CARNARVON RANGE 6267 Phas. mit. BET STANTHORPE + WALLANGARRA

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6281-2 RAT. LUTRE. M.M MALENY S.E.Q. 6283-4 WOMBAT EPPING FOREST C.Q. 6320 AEpy. SANDHURST, FERNLEES 6339 DAETYL. (SHIN) (WATSON) TEL.STA. CAPE YORK MT. SPURGEON 6345 PTER. CONSP. 6346 MINIOP. SCH. CUNIEBOY MT. GARNET 6347 RAT. ASSIM. MT. SPURGEON 6349 UROMYS " " 6350 PERAM " CARBINE (?) 6351 RT. VOLMNS " SPUR. 6352 RT. AUST. " " 6354 PS. ARCH. LAKE BARRINE 6355 PS. LEM. DANBULLAN 6356 PS. HERB. EVELYN 6357 PS. PER. (IN ORIG. SENSE) MT. SPUR. 6358 PS. L. INCANENS MT. " 6359 AEpy, " " 6360 MAC. STIG. " " 6361-2 PETRO. INDR. " CARBINE 6368 POT. TRIDAC. TERROR'S CR. S.E.Q. 6375 PETRO. PUR. QUAMBY 6376 PS. LAN. BRISBANE DIST. 6378 HYDRO. MULGELDIE, N EIDORNA 6395 PHAL. MAR. COEN (LONE PINE) 6409 ACRO. PT. RDS. 6411 D. HALL. CLERMONT 6412 NYCT. NORF. MALBON 6413- EPT. PUMIL. QUAMBY 6414 " " PENTLAND 6415 TAPH AUST. QUAMBY 6419 MAC. PARRY! INVUNE 6420 P. SCIURUS BROOKFIELD BRIS 6422 " NORTH TAMBORINE 6424 NYTI. NORFOLT. GLASS HOUSE MTS. 6449-50 PTERO. SCAP. P. OF W. IS., TORRAS ST. 6467-8 TAPH. FLAV. PLEASANT PT, DALBY S.Q. 6475 POT. TRIDACT. KIAMBIA (NEAR YANDINA) 6479 SMIN. CRAS. OLD CASHMERE, ST. GEORGE 6480 PHASCOLARCT PENTLAND 6498-99-6500 LEG. COEN

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6509-10 PTERO. GOULDI COEN 6513 Syco. AUS. (?) Rocky Se. (PEACH R.) 6514 POTBREV. SOMERSET 6515 MINIOP. AUS. 6516 ANTECHINOMYS LANIGER MALBON 6532 NYCT. NOR. 6539-52 TAPH. GEOR. BOWEN HILLS, BRIS. 6553 EPT. PUM. CLONCURRY 6563-7 MINIOP. SCH. PENTLAND 6569 AE PY. 6571 EUD. (+ NEST) NEAR JORDON CR. (AREA VIA TANISF.) 6618 Smin. CR. TITARGOMINDAI S.W.Q., Q. 6624 HYDRO. MULGOWIE VIA LAIDLEY 6640 PH. FLAV. (7 YG.) BINNA BURRA VIA BEECHMOUNT 6657 TACHY. SOUTHPORT 6679 PHAS. PEN. CUNNINGHAM'S GAP - MAIN RANGE 6710 MAC. WELLS. (SHIN) STRADBROKE IS. 6711-15 RAT. VILL. BOULIA (1940) 6717-24 " " 6740 DRNITH. WIDGEES CROSSING RIV.) 6757 ACRO. HIVESVILLE, PROSTON S.E.Q. 6761-3 MELOMYS CER. (W 2 YG.) BEECHMONT S.E.Q. 6789 PHASCOLACTOS. MOONEE RIV. (S. OF TARA S.W.Q.) 6790-92 MEL. CER. (W. 2YG.) HAZELDEANE, KILCOY S.E.Q. 6822-24 Hypsi. LAKE BARRINE 6829 " HERBERT GEORGE 20 MI. W. INNIS. 6832 PALMERSTON SCRUBS 6835 HIPPO. REG. LK. BARRINE 6848 HAGOR. C. L. COOMOOBOOLAROO, DUARINGO, Q. 6852 DACTYL. RAVENSHOE 6866 ACRO. STRADBROKE IS. 6874 PETAUR VOL. (1 YG.) WOOMBYE N.C. LINE 6886 PANS. PENIN. CLIFTON, DARLING DOWNS 6902 P. SCAP. ANGOR (NEAR CHAR. TWRS.) 6903 SACC. FLAV. OORINDI (G.N.R.R.) 6923 PHAS. FLAV. TEWANTIN S.E.Q. 6939 MESEM. DARWIN N.T. 6940 ISO. TOR. YERONGA, BRIS. 6963 NYCT. AUS. MT. CARDINE 6981 PHAL. MAC. BLUE MT. (COEN)

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7002 Smin. mur (1 yg) Mt. Larcom 7011 EUDR. Mt. Spurgeon 7019 Smin " Millbannt, Kogan, Warra 7023-6 Iso. obes. Brisbane 7052 Nyct. aust. Tamborine Mt. 7078 Petaur. V. Rd. Er Toowoomba to Gatton 7118 Phascol. (Shull) Camp Mt. 7121 Mac. par. ESIT 7122 Aero. Salt Bush Pty, Q. 7129 Smin mur Nt. Tamborine Mt. 7130 Chal. Gouldi Binna Burra 7137 Aero. Gatton S.E.Q. 7138 D. Halluc (?) DA GUN, LAGORN POCKET VIA GYMPIE 7143-4 Phas. Mt. Spurgeon 7145 Uromys " 7146 Melomys 7186 Mac. Giganteus Blackhall 7198 Pet. Nor. Corinda, (Bris.) 7200 Phas. Pen. Moggill (N. Bris.) 7207 Ant. flav. Woombye (N.C.Line) 7253 Ant. " Beerburrum S.E.Q. 7303 Aero. Deception Bay S.E.Q. 7306 Smin er. Jackson, W.Q. 7310 Perm. N. Chelmer, Bris. 7317 Nyto. timor The Summit via Stanthorpe 7324 Pet. Nor. Mt. Gravatt, Bris. 7326 Ps. lanig Oxley, Brine. 7341 Tachy. Guyra N.E.N.S.W. 7342 P. Nor. Ashgrove Bris. 7343 " Mt. Cotton S.E.Q. 7348 Aero. Elimbah S.E.Q. 7353 Micronomus nor. Wooloowin B.R. 7355 Ant. flav. Beaudesert S.E.Q. 7356-7 P. Nor. Texas S.Q. 7360 Ornytho. N Pine Riv. S.E.Q. 7385 Smin. mur Tingoora S.Q. 7386 Miniopt. Hus. Home Hill N.E.Q. 7402 Smin. mur Loganlea S.E.Q. 7405-6 " Cross Wallumbilla Cent S.Q. 7407 Smin. mur Texas S.Q.

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7409 Hydro. Imbil S.E.Q. 7411 PTERO.G. T.I. TORRES ST 7412 SCHOLIN.V. CABOOLTURE S.E.Q. 7413 AERO BEERWAH S.E.Q. 7415 RAT. LUTR. BINNA BURRA Notice on recommendation trip continued from prior to above list. Wed Get. The copying of catalogue received several days - 20 was not completed till Saturday. Continued The other members of the party still here. Their front off, due to lean till the 26th. Mack, driven, Very pleased with his (Vern's) Stars of the results of the trip. Thu Oct 21, Working in Drum - arranging my transport. Fri Oct 22, Am flying to Sydney by Ansett Airways Sat Oct 23, Monday. Q.A.A., until they have booking for me on the 27th at 11:59 p.m. Wall very being taking trips to the country - making Kodachrome pictures, My shoulder, while I strained when Tommy broke into the baggage car at Rifle Creek is still very annoying. - sometimes positioning painful. Vern & I attended meeting of the A.O.U. Saturday p.m. Quilt post. Sun. - Nothing specific. Mon Plan to Sydney, leaving 7.45, arriving Oct 25 11.30 a.m. Chked in at Pan American. 4 p.m. run at Swan Central H. Saw Walkman & Troughton at Museum in afternoon. Got air ticket for U.S.A. Wednesday night at midnight (Continued after many pages in notes from Aero. Nurs. Registration). Oren

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Firm Gramal catalogues at Sydney. The catalogues are in 4 series :- 1. The "Old" Palms catalogue, mixed phyle, containing 1. "Australian palms" no.1-1153 2. The "A" Catalogue (Firm, 1877) 1. Mixed organisms, pp 1-91, unnumbered. 2. "A" number type a p. 92 - #1 = 6625 (mixed ratchets). 3. The "A" catalogue continued :- 1. Nos A 6626-19026 (Oct. 1883) Mixed 2. Beginning the "B" catalogue no.1-1254 (March 1884). Mixed 4. The "B" catalogue 1. No 1255-10435 (Dec. 1886.) Mixed 5. The "m" (namal) catalogue. 1. No. 1-7239 (Nov. 1946). Vol. 1, 2. " 7240 to date (Oct. 1948). Vol. 2 There is also the continued work under species done for the card catalogue M. giganteum Lechlan R, NSW; Corrbie; Boro, Bourdevoir Dist; Bouke Dirt; Blue Mtns ; Blaxland Swamp, Lithgow; Warwack, Q; Inverell, NSW; Cunnamulla; Parkes; Surat, Q; Tasmania; Cotterg Yenardie; Mudgee; Armidale Dist; Newnes; m. melanocephala Trangie; m. puliginum Kogarn Dol. m. notabilis Lithgow; Blaxland Swamp, Lithgow; Frida Junction; Oaky Creek, Bonalbo, NSW.; Buchanow, Mudgee; Score; Armidale ; Cotterg Yenardie; within 12 mi Cottetown (no. M4606) ; Perthamena Cte, nr Sydney; Glen Dunes; Patari R. valley, 20 mi Picton RACOS - Yalgro, Mitchisin, N.W.A.; Jirasura, 5 y Nooraterran, SWA; Strat Ranges, Mintaly Adel's Dune, s y Lawn Hill Sta, N. Q., Teresely St., Diamondina R.; Crystal Park, S.A.; Herramshy, C.A.; Paukhiton, N.W.A.; Yalanana, nr Charleville.

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M. rufus Brouski Ditt; Blue Mt's; Ashburton, R.W.A; Cooranbong; Widgieera; Bozgabre; Gernby or Prosera; Otan Sta. telus with Gra & Urardugie, N.Q. M. ruficollis Braidwood Dist.; Lithgow; Bro; Blue Mt's; Blaxlands Swamp; Gundaroo; Wallerawang; Thivoul; Bullicc, Barngup R.; Mt Horeb, Tumut Ditr.; Tamworth; Tilliby, Wyong Dist.; Nattai R.; Bunnagorag; Corlog, Yennadinni Ditt.; Newnes; M. bennetti Lady Barron, Flinders St., Bour St.; Weygard; M. panyi Clarence R.; Grafton; within 12 mi Curton (M.4607); Dawson Valley; Copernhurst; Sarinb, n. Rockay; P.#997 M. antilopinus Pat Damini M. tanarus S. Alllyath R. (head); E & Damini; M. tricta Tamolan Caves; Wallerawang; Brudge; Muswillumbah; Yarnaralong, n. Wyong; Donalny, Wyong; Mt Irvine, Blue Mt's; Brush Creek, Wallon Ditr.; 85 m. Syd. M. apiculatus, Ingrami. Bellunda R.; Wallumbilla or Pemma, S.Q; Welladyi; Stradbroke Is. M. agilis Pt Essingla.; Dittony R., W.I.A.; Cottonton; Bunktown; Adel's Bure, 8 of Lawn Hill St., N.W.Q. M. billindini Flinders to Bro Stg.; West District 1, Bour St.; n. Mt Kent; Huemrek 16, Barr 80.; Burnnie, Tas. M. docalis Manilla; Seton's trochymus King R., 10 mi Albany W.A.; Princess Royal Bay; Normalepo, near Durrouck, S.W.A. M. irma, Cranbroke; Emu Pt., Albany; Mystipration Bellunda R.; Herberton Ditr.; L. Banning; M. parvus, Wollongong, s. coast (1026); Cantavara; Sassafua. M. unilesei Ballina, Richard R.; Muswillumbah; Lyong, n. Sydney; Brook Creek, 20 mi from Lyong.

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Pn. Bregma Ragoano Isl.; Nannagin, S.W.A; Balladonia, N. W.A.; W.A.; In Theta Wollongong (1025°) (Tortu: ck. for jama); Bellajin R., Nevert; Bullie, Barringa R.; Myall Lakes; Sillaby, Wyrig Diri & Humebroke, Mullumbimby, N.S.W.; Pet. juncilata Cattawana, S. Coast; Litgow; Wottery Ck., Richmond; Coo River; Mt Irvine; Bunk Creek, Willombi Dist., 85 mi N. Syd. Pet x altipna Port Augusta, S.A.; Degravetena Sta., Gaddleton, N.W.A., Pet latulata Kookaburra Rock, 20 mi Kellerberrin, W.A.; Hermannsburg. P inornata Magnetite Isl.; 12 mi. S.E. Mt Isa P subfuta Westwood, Rockhaupt; Davon R.; Aliis Sp. P pumila Torrin Ck., P. juniperum illi Dejana (m 3405 /Htl type) Palens Teracy Sta., Diamantina R.; Blackwater Ck Adelaide, S.W.A; Gray's R., N. of Arlanku. P. brachyotis Alligator R Onychogale finalata Wagga; Cotar; Glen Innes; Granville Dist; Namoil R.; Defpygymma Manilla; Bullie, Barringa R.; Davon R. Valley; Bulla Isl., L. Dracqueria; "near Corrpton"; nr. Townsville Laparchista c lichtlta Wq Pearkeston ; Type # 1103 ♂ (1861) Lagochilus laproide Yandamah, N.S.W. Potomus platypro Salt R., S.A. P. t. rudalyla Bellajin Dist; Bullie, Baringa R.; Dend Permetham. Blomfuid R.; "Curletum 3 Hyppri mucro Pahm no 1135- A no. 9813

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Trick valpquula Nelson; Herbert R, Q; Tarana & Bulline, Bangs R; Tootillii, Spencer Gulf; Tamington, nr Sydney; Kangaroo Is S.A; Cass Pt, Riggs Bay; P. Man (17 mi); Quirindi; Mt Horeb, Tumut Dist; Berrina (2200 ft); Trarafield, Vic; Flinders Is Ban Sm; Pimant N.W.; M. Nickleby, 28 mi E Tumut; Sladotne Dist Q; Almaden, N.Q; Killara, Syd; Yanco, Munnikityen R; Nattai R, Bannagong; Sympie Dist; Tenny Hills, Kuringai Chase; Poyntin- te Sands, Syd; Valdure, Syd. T. V. australensis Pt Darwin; Bathurst D., ; Bellville Bay T.V. johetni Bellingen R.; Herberton; Almaden (chremeni?); T. Caninus Glen Davis; Elmenthal; Mt Irvine; T. c. nigra T. Tweed R. Ps arcteri Balcker; Herberton Dist. Ps elmaeida Herberton Dist Ps occidentalis Norwalup, nr Denmark, S.A., Ps perpulina Parnellville; Clatsford; Nananduna; Coen; Sutherland; Mt Horeb, Tumut Dist; Daram Valley, Q; Prosermans, Sydney Ps canigirinus Paynell Lake; Dingo; Jindalyne, Monaro Dist; Tumut; Coong, Yennadine; Argalby, via Tumut; Mt Lofty, S.A (M4838); F. Torry Valley Q; Yanco, Murrumbidgee & Cheltenham, Syd; Nattai R, Bunyarong; Mt Irvine; Eastwood, Sydney. Ps l. orchi Kelsey Creek, Rosepinn Ps C. victoria Westport, Vic. Phol. mac. Cape York Pen (no. M4667) Dactylpsis [illegible] Russell R; Climp Pt, Tumut; H. Broyd-Rindell Tetm, Q; Tully Rrn Cullull; Bellingen R.; Cape York (no. 5768); Abeywrie, Cardwell; Dromiceia [illegible] North Head, NSW.

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Disr: 34 Sch. volans Herbert, N.Q (CM 362-3, typh genicera); Tumbernunta; Helmsby; 5 cast j Port Macquarie; Bonial; La Perouse, Syd; Dicalng, Tumut; Dengry; Wyndahake; Rylton; Davon Val Q; Drom Vale; Coting, Yerrandine; Burrangara; Bundoora, n cast; Smithfield, nr Syd.; Carda, via Bathate; Braidwood; nq Sin Gin Q; E Kgalom, Tovaral Dist; 8 mi sw Roscinkto; Burunging, Syd; Sosford; Int. Ovina; Eccleston, (flms Bangta Tso); Pet austeli? 30 mi de Picton Pet bericeps Tull R.Q.; Blonfield R.; Terran Cres.; Uppr. Chare R.; Ourunta; S. Alljelis R.; Even; Bonial; Railltn, Tas; Beverina; Bathurst Val., n Danin; Sosford; Telnri 30 mi'Rosey; Mulgova, n Penrith; Bulli Dior; Angalny nd Tumut; Drom Vale; Coting, Yerrandine; Hargano; Pdombala; Pet PK Syd; Serogely, 50 mi. from Albury; Lindfield Sgd.; Carden, Syd.; Blecklatt, Blue Rto; Dooole PK Syd., Trinina via Dalto; Darfield. Syd; Frideloyo, S.h.; Port Hacking, s. Syd.; Turrumuna; Engadine; Cape Arkem, N.T.; Tyalgam, Tweed R.; Blue Mt. Pet sciuino Terran Cres.; Bega; Smithfield; PoulgravaTingleton; Corooran, Rockhamptn; Drom Val 65 mi. nw Taroom; Casino; Wyeu Syd.; Erypia Dist.; Yetran se q Srodiwindi. Acrostratus pyg.: Smithfield; Brikdam; Bombala; Hrmaty; Belltrees, Scare; Parrematin; Sayndale, Q.; Tranangeros; Braidwood; Uralla; Carden; Rivcaley an Barketston; Newnes Jctn; Cox R., Lithgort; Potlond; NSW Evoralanalun; Lindfield; Aundale, Bunagati; Hatly; Pymble, Syd.; Frantisville, La Macquarie Dist, Glen Dinno, Balgowlah, Syd.; Bylmpria Rylestron; Assfnd via Inverness. Peram. gurni Railltn Tas; " rayosum Salt R., W.A. " m. martinia Drinker, Hulderin Plan; Volden; Rawline. P. nasuta Herbertin Dist Q.; Parrematta; Tarana; Backlly's Cross; Terran Cres.; Ourundi; Lindfield; Killara; Nepean Wangapark R; Jctn; Sladerville ; Northwood, Sydney; Davon R Val; Longneville,Syd; Mntrelli, Palmwood, via Brisbane; Uppr. Barketston Sd.; Laramie, Syd.; Palmwood, S.E.Q., Ttonam, Syd.; Killara, Syd; Ryde, Syd;

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Isodromus olivaceus Pine Hill, Q.; Botany Swamps; Littgar; Carnarvon, W.A.; Benyanta, Albany, S.W.A.; West Sister, Q.; Burnt St.; So. Portland, Vic. Locom Hinchinbrook, Q. Athol & Kendal, Q. 1. procumus Cape Arrenton; 1. Forous Herbert; Conway; Benyanta; Hurstbrook via Millumbimby Proceratia ligata: Bathurst; Grompel, 43 mi s.w. Laid(?) Gracefield, W.A.; Carnarvon, W.A.; Conigan; W.A. Tenterden, Q.; So. Pine, W.A.; Rawlinna; Coombie M. l. opitila Hermannsburg, C.A., Phaschischa Boro, Braidwood; Carnarvon; Wallerawang; Bellingup Dirt; W. Drayland; Hampden, 9 mi Trachay; Pithin Bay, Syd.; Dawan Val.; Diesel's Do., Vic.; Daytrays, Q.; Pithum; Kunajorg; Clareville Minn. Vale; Berowie Water nr. S.D.; Carel Bay; Pittaton, Syd; P. e. victa Victoria (M.5732 #lotyp.) Typhae cypraph. Tasmania (4) Sarc. Tamani " (6) Orygmenia fasciata Gracefield, W.A.; Hastings, W.A.; Carnarvon, W.A. Das. maculata. Thirlmere; Wagga; Lindfield; Picton Dist; White Swamp, O.E. Kowalek; Angalang nr. Tumut; Corrind, Blue Rt.; Wambope; Warragul Hts. via Bedford; Killian Hills (M-6637); Paterson, N.Newcastle; Dowford his Serporg Das pualis Bellenden Ku (M 155 Type); Dror Campbell, Q.

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Dao. viverrinus Colovale; Goulburn; Lawson; Corind; Dromans Bay; Kempsey; Wavaly Syd; Smithfield; Culmore Pr; Taringa Pl (Cmpt); Gladstone Dir't NE Tas; Darning Val; Vaucluse Syd; Murrellnd, NE Tas; Rose Bay; D. geoffroyi Teningningup WA; D. h. hallucatus Frackay Dangarius cisternoda Oldlea; Pawlina; Jinder, Taliie. Antich. planus Scaroigerie, Borde; N.SthSyd; Pat Jackson (Type & strate); Goannin R; Smithfield; Lym Flat, Inverell; Antario via Rydal; Elth; Pibeton; Korawatha; Megalny Val; Suy CK via Barreta; Nat PR Syd; Whitwick, 10 mi. Bathurst; Dryall takes; Rocky Scrub, N.Q; Bralanstrom, Mt Hrub, Turmut; Ph.Loteno 12mi Eta; Cotrup, Yennanderie; Argalny, nwr Turmut & Yeumburn, via Yass; Hermidole, Cobar Litt., Tomatt W., Curling; Smbil, Byrgia Dist; Mt Irvine, Blundet. Ant swainsoni Phl. 12 mi Eta; Argalny nwr Turmut; Arthur & Roger Rocks, NW Tas.; Ph. minimus Wor Tamar, Tas. Ph. tapoatupa Kingsford; Bega; Trendurah; Yam CR, nr Port Essington, N.T.; Beechind, nr Wantype; Rublift & Tenterfield, n: coast. Tr says Brown 10th it is NE on Vic. Ph. pirita Yarrakali, nr Cap Antem. Ph. sp. M 2696 Widgiewa; M 3787 Currarunda Ph. apicalis Saler R. W.A. Em. crassus Widgiwa; Dandoo; Brullaley nr Eumedah; Tartellup, W.A.; Madrill Ra; Taylor Plains, Narra tri

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Em. murinus King George Isd W.A. Em. longipennis Charlotte Water; Wyangarie, Richmond, N.Q.; Dimantina R. nigrin; Ant. laevis 588 a — 588 b NSW (Type) 588 c Sir T.A. Mitchell 588 e in spirit M 1799 Kiowa Dmns, Trullengudgery NSW M 621 Walbundie Ant. spiniferi Rawlina (M+641) Vanitabulio Liriusulus Blue Mts; Littgow; Batlow; Gippsland Vic; Mt Dapragh, Corowa Dbr; Mittagong; 14 mi Oberon; Terrina; Kerrinja, 30 mi Parralbld; Tarlaga; Bery; Phascol. uranios Lady Barron, Flinders Is., Baro Sts. Nitryctes 250 mi n. S. Australia Right Omithrychus Tarana; Littgow; DracDonald R; Poanilla; Narai R; Nepean R; Druwell; O. c. crispus Bullin, N.W.Tea; Perthwill Tea. Tachyploma Narabenn; Kayarn Is.; Lake Careylicio; Paper R distg; N.T.; Mora Isl.; Lawn Hill Sta S & Bunketon; Melville Bay + Cape Amble; Mt Rosciwsky 4000 ft. T. octonus Tasmania Archip; Flinders Is., Baro Sta. Alectryphalus dorsifrons Seal Rocks, Pt Stephano; Montagus Isl, S. Coast NSW; Lady Julia Percy Rock, Pt Fairy, N.S.W; Alectryphus fosteri Dunedin N.Z.; King Is., Bass St.; Redcliff Archip, S.W.A. Eurystomus albicollis Linn. Is., Esperance Bay, S. W.A.

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Ogmophis lepturus Franly NSW & Portar Bay; Hydromys chrysogaster Sydney; Lawn Creek, Ponde; Tarana; Parandera; Carletony Crt. Sydney & Rindwick; Hen-Chicken Bay; Lytton Pt, Parramatta R., 25-mi s. Mt Horeb, Tumut; Tumut; Cundalobin; Liverpool; Musewra, NE Tas.; Helena Do Pass St; Drieklo R., MT Kosciusko; L. Macquarie; Eubalgy, W.Lauchlan R.S. Argalby via Tumut; Bmtala; Turner, SE of SA.; Mt Lofty Ra, S.A.; Trentham Caves H.c. lutulla Sydney Harbor (M 5723). H. caymanus Albanyshire nr. Ingham; Carno Dirt. H. fulvovittatus Bourke Dirt; Cundalobin; H. fuliginosus King Geo Sound (Patria no. 121); Cremorne, W.A.; Judor, Denmark Line, S.W.A; Normalup nr. Dirdal, W.A. H. leucopus Campbellton, N.S.W.; Camden, Bimjelle Dirt; Bathurst; Tarana; Hydromys. Yardrunk (M 645); Ft Darwin (M2302); Hinchinbrook Isl. (M 4 238. H. lawrencei Adels Grove, Lawn Hill Creek, N.W.Q H. leucophris Lake Bannie H. helicuris Bathurst Del., N.T. H. nove Moa or Barnes Isl. H. frontatus Brooke Eylandt H. orinus Frt. Dampier Dirt, Papua 88, 89, 90, 64 Chlamys cucullata, Cape York (Collye Shell 51848);; Blomfield R; Tenetin Holroyd & Kendall (coll Lesmy). U. exilis Hinchinbrook Isl., U. lamingtoni Mt Lea, Papua; D'Entrecasteaux, N.G. U. stenium Naritna Dirt; Bellinda Rn Pa;

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Melpa taufieldi Dainty ls. Crownora, Rockh. Dirt (M 3784) M. cerninus. Pt Lorent 12 mi Ebor; ?{ M 6730 Imbil, Sympie Dirt Q. M 6305, 6306, 6307 Van Rockay M 6306, 6309 56 mi Pockey M 6551 Sarina, 25mi Pockey M 6553 Natara, vu Pockey M. cur. pallidus Hitchen & ls. M. littoralis insulae Atwitten book 1. M. littoralis. Port Denmina; Ayr, ; Tumsville; Innisfail; M. cur. elenus Herberton Dirt, M. australiensis Blomfield R { Barbinka; Cairns Dirt; "Intake" at Cairns; Innisfail (?) M. mixtus Scott Eylandt (type + 2 paratypes a.g) M. limicola Heyman Do., Whit Sunday Sup- (Type a.g) M. rubricata (2 Bronte Cps) Peltuus armillatus Lithgow; Kosciusko; 30 mi s. Noura; Pineburn Sypm, 15 mi Kingsto.; Blackheath; Chikistu, Dungarv; Dryall Lamas; Athelk. Tallul Q; Etta; Tch. Okudbo + Brany Ps; Argaly on Tumut; Lugony; Capertee; Trimmamuna, s.s. 3 Nat PRSd; by Nth Q; 9 mi W Doullembint; [illegible] Sampson; So Portland, Vic; L. bil, Gympie Q; not Inver, Ban dt; Barrington Type.

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R. rattus (way) may need examined. Ps tessellatus R. gregi Clelands Gully, Not Compare, S.A; Arthur & Tegu River, NW Tas; Blackridge Lagoon, 15 mi Ruygerte, Kangaroo Dl. Tulka, 8 mi S. Pat Lirveston, Eye Pin. R. timorensis Alice Springs R. nordmanni Perthshire Gorge R. cratiti Allyjohn R., N.T., R. fuscipes luturida Darling Downs (Brisbane); Long Bay; King George Sound U.S.A.; Richmonds River; Darnumbe; 94 Pocaguarie; Arthur & Pereg River, Tas; R. C. lindae Lombok Sypria R. fuscipes Armadale; Englewood; Barmbury R. culm. valisius Rome R. culm. apex Skittle Creek, Cape York R. culm. yagyi Strathmore Dl. R. cratitus Drogham; Drickery; "Intake", Cairns; R. lut. velutinus Tasmania (Calm & Quin). R. lut. curvilinea Mt Irvine, Plumtree; Myall Lakes; Etna; R. l. luturida French's Is. Vic (M 4844). R. villosus Victoria R., N.T.; Templeton R, 17 mi M'Isa; Otan Sta, n q. Uranderie, N.Q; Rum Downs Sta, N.T.; (1934) Alexandria Downs Sta (1934); Adel's Store, m Lam Hill, N Q (1934)

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Mesenhipia [illegible] Pt Darwin 1910 M. macrum Darby n WA; Loomy pedunculata Ahlstedt; Illamanta S.A.; Mesenhipia pridi Cape Arunten 1941 Cerilium penicillatum Swort Ey. Ligniti cordata Olden " apicula Darby R, Orastrum ?+ Roscuro ; Beechmont, Otway Dirt-Vic, Pteroma khandani? = cmoplicillata? " scapulata Yam Creek N.T; Paroo, NWA; Loxford NSW; Wellyta JNSW; Inverell; Giffiths; Sydney; Pteroma phillipensis from Dunti y Yake = P. acutus ? Nyctophilus pupinus West Jasper, Bordreidgeben Para NSW (M 3221) " australis Crotetum (M 1244); Blampfield R. Rhiol. argophylla; Crotetum; Almadan. Hipp.d.nepivus Cardwell (Type). Maculata pyro Swort Ey (M505-6) Nyctophilus gregoryi Todd R, 20 mi Patrickska, S.A.; Danilla; Tumut; Tantellup, W.A. " [illegible] Kosciusko 5000ft; Cotar.; Yass; " Tantellup Tantellup Denmark SWA; Tantellup, S WA. Pep. taomaniensis Burwood, Sydney; Argalng; Benima

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Mystis adversus (inacupra) Dyalgum, Dwer R. E.p. jormulus Ridowld, Q; Tulka, 8 mi Pt.dnids, S.A; Suda sil p, Denmark Sw, W.A.; Lindeman's Is., m.Bossen, Argalny, w. Tumut; Lrt Hme Id.; Balladonia ril Noborburra, W.A.; Broth Ey.; Tantellup, swa; 8 mi s. Int Daa, NWQ E.p. vulturna Bieteno, E coast Tas., Chal. jouldi Tarana; Belarinyan; Int Lyndhaver, 30mi e. Darwin, S.A.; Enteljued, Sydney; Berinina; Argalny, Tumut; Oolder; Claire, NSW; Jema; Ch. gossio Lithgow: Tambellup, W.A., Ch. mijopriano Tyndone, Borne; 30 mi nw Bandiie; Ch. picillus Byrock; Scoternis geyp Vietni R., N.A. Pinirphila sch. Woolornortro; Glen Dernigh; Chillagoe Cros; Prospect Reserv.; Elizabeth By, Syd. Min Clamau R (M 2618) M. orianus Damun Taph. flaviventris Stanwell n Bulli; Narrangt; Caino; Barren Jctn; Broth Ey. Nyctima australis Cudal; Muresbork; El Cardo, Taree Dist.; Wentworth; Caino; Pittngory; mulge(M189) N. flancicepa Wangaratta + Nepler Jctn (Ririe) Nr nyphtlemus Smithfield, Syd.; Goo ford.

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Chaerophyton p. citrinum "Berkeley"; 8 mi. S. of D.C. Oct. 27 (cited from before the foregoing note). Spent all Oct. 26 at work on my little amount of today. Expect to leave for U.S. at 11:59 p.m. P.S. About 4 o'clock who should come in to the Museum but Bob Miller, the ichthyologist of the Arnhem Land Expedition. It turns out that we are going out on the same plane flight. He will stop off at Honolulu to visit friends. G.H.H.Tate 1948 ARR. SYDNEY OCT. 25 (MONDAY) IN SYDNEY OCT. 25 - 27 (MON.) (WED.) To U.S.A. 11:59 P.M. WED. Spent Time copying AUST. MUS. CATALOGUE (no mention of photographs)

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Trichosurus One at Werlock from the cut down by natives. Seemingly more at Bunn's Creek. Six others shot at Werlock - all in open forest. At Coon several were taken in the Armbrust paddock at about 8 miles out on the Coon-Werlock Road. The one female had I pouched young. Shot one at "The Bold", another at Abergoolah. One seen by Siff in Lewis's store at Corktown One shot by Paws behind Hotel, Corktown: Two shot by me at McLeod's Escape Timelin, N.O. g Mt Spurgeon

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Tachy glossus None taken until Iron Range, though they were reported at the top as being moderately common on the crests of the scrub covered iron-stone ridges (200 ft). Tom Hollands stated he once came upon a group of four or five. One was dug from a 2 ft. wide hole beneath a very large gum tree at the edge of a shallow gully. Another was caught in the hollow base of a drain four feet deep in a cavity but had scarcely burrowed down at all. A third was found by Van at Iron Range airstrip entangled with wire netting. A fourth was spotted by Van or right (when hunting with the Cyrt). It looked at first like a humpback whale. It did not move and was readily caught. The fifth has brought in by a rateri. The platysma muscles are enormously developed and the bases of the spirals are so deeply embedded in it that the muscle can be only imperfectly preserved when skinning the animal. There is no external ear - only a large tragus - yet large internal cartilages indicate the former presence of external cartilages. Another was found for Queensland Museum by a dog close to the Iron Range airstrip, and still another was picked up by my boy Roy in open forest at Iron Range up on a rattled bare hillside. George Nankervis found a small one in open country at Wenlock. One picked up at night at Wenlock a few yards from Batawi R. One shot by Van on Mt. Finnigan at night at 2800 ft. One found crossing road by Guff at Finnigan, 1300 ft.

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Daquiridas. We have seen no truly wild dasyure (May 19). Yet there animals at times make themselves quite at home with man. They live among the timbers of the R.I.P. What & feed on left over fish & hair. One (purchased by me) was caught by faring an oar cast thrown on it. They are said to inhabit abandoned army huts, stacks of empty pressure drums, particularly to like old empty tires. Dick Hollands insisted they form cockwheels. They appear to inhabit a low, open forest; not scrubby rainforest. The male caught by me had eyes which shone well. The total taken in the "Tip" area was four- all. Saturellus hallucatus. Three were in houses, one in an old iron barge stranded on shore. Go Tazza. The next Saturellus were taken at Jam traps and Brown's Creek where they were moderately common. They were reported from Portland Roads, but we did not occur any. Claws, apparently only matched by their own species, were found in the stomachs - also remains of levard, centipede, lair, vegetatin. The cranial formula is 4-4=8; the pouch color of a vixen female light purplish pink. At Brown's Creek two males were caught in two steel traps attached to a common stake. How? Did the second attack the first trapped one with cannibalistic intent and himself get caught also. Both were considerably bitten by morning. Van trapped one at Werlock. Two taken at Coen, - one trapped (very poor & emaciated) one from follow log 8 miles n.w. of Coen. Two trapped on black gum-front killiains at Helwale. One at Black Pointers,

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Cuscuses. (maculatus) At the "tip" spotted cuscus was only moderately common. We never got a fully adult male. The eyes are brilliantly . The animals in their scrub, rarely venturing out with "four". (orientalis) No gray cuscuses found at the "tip". Iron Range proved to be rather rich in Spotted Cuscuses. An excellent series of all stages in both sexes was secured. Three brown (gray) cuscuses were collected at Iron Range. The Spotted Cuscuses were eating the fruits of the Leichart Tree, Nauclea of the Rubiaceae Spotted Cuscuses were apparently rarer at the western side of the scrub: only 2 were collected. Two brown cuscuses shot by Van at Shepherd's Batting Site, Peach River; also others taken by Don Verna at same place. Pouch young in 94.

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Stupid jorum, Dactyllopida. Van was the real collector of this animal. He shot all we took by patiently waiting in small camps for the animals to reveal themselves by noises. Their eyes shine rather well. As they were also taken in the "big scul," it seems they prefer rain forest to open forest. In some cases they must have crossed open forest to reach isolated scults. Several were taken at Lockridge, one at the Sawmill scult, one at the Newcastle Bay. No Dactyllopida was discovered at Portland Roads, or Sun Range, or Mt Tozer, or Wodrich. A young Dactyllopida given was Dixon by Miss Gabriella Neutkaiser, was seized by the town. The mother, star, is reported to have been taken a few miles below the town on the Coen River. One adult shot by Van near "Mango Tree" top of McDowall Range - 1800 ft. One shot in rain scult (border of rain in open forest) at Helensburgh, 26 mi. S. Cooktown.

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Acrotretis - Feather-tail Phalyn. Van first saw the eyes & later the white underparts of this tiny animal in a flowering bloodwood tree behind the belt of scrub at Newcastle Bay. He shot it but could not find it (exrjpr). Next day twenty for it he shot a carpet snake under the same tree. The snake had an Acrotretis in its stomach. X-ray will probably show lead pellets inside. This capture marks the northern limit of the species. Reported to occur at Barron River in Queensland. One taken by Don Vernon for Queensland Mice. (♂) in the gallery flood forest at Shephards Batty Site, 800 ft., on Peel River. Caught in net trap at base of very large tree.

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Sugar Glider Phalanger - Petaurus breviceps. None of these were found at Lockerie; but Van & I each shot one female in flowering Portwood trees behind Newcastle Bay. One had 2 young in the pouch. Van collected 2 more at the mouth of the Jamadinya River. At Portland Roads one was shot in low eucalyptus forest; none at Jim Range; none at Tozer. A juvenile from Werlock (in alcohol: no. 11046); also two adults, one of them with 2 pouch young. One seen at Archer River. 1 bird shot at Coen. One Said to be found at Laura. One at Shipton's Flats, Mt Finmijan, 1000 ft. Two at Aldulbury Sta (25 mi, Corktown - Laura RR)

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Dingo. [illegible] Dick Holland killed a large male dingo, accompanied by a yellow female, which had attacked his dog. He said it was dark at the back. I saw two yellow dingos, one 10 miles nw of Toms ville, the other between Hubeith and Chillipo. Occasional tracks at Jim Rags, many near at Hot Tozer and Brown's Creek. One was seen crossing the Dypig Strip at I.R. Trapping with 8-trap sets captured native cats but not dingoes. Van trapped a fine female dingo on wallaby at Walock also saved skulls of 2 poisoned specimens. I saw Two at Arta Run. One seen from train, Laura-Carina, about 28 miles out of C.

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Baird - band-tailed badger. The species, I. pinicola (if any good) is represented by 4-5 species. They inhabit the grasses of the open forest at Lockebuie. Its tracks, which I saw on the sand dunes respectively, are curiously like those of our N.Am. rabbit. The forepaws are similarly placed one ahead of the other, but the hind feet do not pass ahead of the front ones as in rabbits. A very small one found in a carpet snake. One was picked up dead at Iron Ridge. Its color was pale rusty brown. A foot of a second was found by Van in a trap. At Mt. Vosser a single young animal (not found young) was killed by the blow of an axe or by one of our "boys". No other was seen. The remains of a badger in a crow's stomach at Binnie Creek. One hunted out of a hollow log by a dog yesterday, taken 8 mi. n.w. of Coen.

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Maarpu cycilis Abundant, the stamping of the feet often heard, but, due to the very long grass at Lockertie, hard to see — even with a hunting light at night. On the other hand in the short grass country by the Tardine River I stone their eyes easily. I found no signs of the related M. celebatus at the "lip". The Saints killed one at Narn Point in the "forest" sleeve which leads them from Lake Brent. It was common at Portland Roads and in the small pocket of "forest" at Mr. Roger's. No specimen discovered at Mt Tozer (and no tracks). Two tracks + two seen but not taken, at Pooni's Creek. Two males at W. Lock. Two seen a few miles outside Coen, their hip stripes conspicuous. One shot at Abergoolek had silvery puzzled neck. " joined up at Thumillo, Locktown.

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Thylacoleo stigmaticus The northern "race" (?) coxeni is not uncommon in the scrub growing on the iron-stone ridge (200 ft) above Lookout. One was picked up dead on the road, close to the R.I.P. creek. Another was shot in the scrub at Narre Point camp. Both at Porters Roads and Jam Rigg specimens were collected. A single one at Mt Tozer in the scrubs of the west Clondie River. Also at Mt Dimmigan scrub, 1100 ft.

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Rattus leucopus group Extremely common in the scrubs on the rimstone ridges at Lockubis and at the sawmill 2 miles to the NE. Rare at Nau Point camps - even in the scrubs. Not found at the Tarkine River camps torn in the low rimstone ridge (in four 1" scut). Old animals have a singly rusty color, possibly due to accumulations from the rimstone in the channelled dorsal spines. Females have the mammary formula 1-2 = 6. Animals climb moderately, and can be trapped up on logs as much as 4 feet from the ground. Much less common at him Range as Portland Roads. The rusty color of rimstone so layer rotcally. Only a couple taken in the Mt Toder scrubs, where it was scarce. One only & at Bram's Creek, when it is very rare. Rattus l. corallus taken in numbers in Rocky Scut, 1500 ft cutface at Camp One Pocket (west fall of Mc Murritt Range). Two at Shephards Battery Sibi, Peek R. Rattus conatus Large series of near topotypes from scrubs of Mt Feringan 700-3200 ft, 30 miles s. of Corktown.

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Pattus near eculnorum & fusti. (R.c. after Troughton) Rare at the "tip". It habits open grassy forest. Has become slightly more plentiful in the clearing in the immediati vicinity of Lockerbie House. Females have mammary formula 3-3=12. Males may grow very large - weight up to ½ lb. This species was not found at Newcastle Bay or at the Tardis River camp. This must be rather a local rat, as several were taken at "Main Roads" camp, yet none in the fescue of Jim Reys. Now at Pattus roads. Three were collected at Jim Rays Air Strip in savane forest. Later we heard that this rat was being rather a pest around the Main Roads camp. At Mt Tower it was very rare. One at Brown's Creek. Rare there. Found again (2) in long grass of Camp Oven Pocket, 1500 ft on war fall of McIlwraith Range, ne of Coen. Two trapped at Musgrave Telegraph Station. Two "" Shipton's Elito in "lady jars", open forest. Three at Helensvale in open forest. Three at Beagen's farm, 10 mi s.w. of Castletown

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Melomys castelnauii (2) A common scansorial rain-fourt rat at Lockerbie occasionally working out a little way into open "forest". Present also at Newcastle Bay. Other specimens were taken in the creeks (falling sand) which cut through the dunes to the sea. None at the Tardine. A possible second species was trapped by Van in the dense-birding dwarfed Callophyllum. A similar species in the scrub of Patter's Road of Inn Reye. It sometimes ventured out into grassy country. At Mt Tozer a member was seen in the scrub. Only three taken at Primm's Creek (2 Q.) A fair series collected at the McPherson Raps, with east river slopes. A large series with four 28-30 ft. war slopes of Mt Finnigan, 800-3200 ft. One at Block Mountain Examples of an unusually large rain-fourt Melomys found at Upper Neboit R. Melomys roseni luteillus. This tiny species was found at Patter's Road & Inn Reye but not farther north, though it is a close relative of the New Guinea sp. It inhabits grasslands. A good series was taken in the Inn Reye Area. Another good series at Mt Tozer, also 6 at the upper parts of the mountain in "Pardan Bully" containing Pardahus and Cot shunts grasses. It spread steadily into dwarf Casuarina forest when it smashes used the cores formed by cloth-If Casuarina reeds, like Pinus needles, then formed a mat covering fallen sticks etc. & left many run-way-like openings. Four or five of these were used by this Melomys. Two at Primm's Creek, Two at Winooski; Two at Arcturus R.; one at Glen- close to winsick. Four taken at Camp Oron Pocket, McPherson Raps. One at Abayoral Seven at Shipton's Flats: feet 24-26 mm.

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18 Uromys cardinalelatus. The "white-tailed rat" was not rare in the scrubs of the rimstone ridge at Locksbie. One was Taken by Van at Newcastle Bay along the rimstone cliffs of Naur Point, where it probably fed on the seeds of Pandanus. It was partly isolated from the main scrub by 1/4 mile of windswept, open, tussocky common. Found to be fairly common in the Iron Range area, one was shot by Van at the Flyig Strip about 100 feet out in the "fores" from the "Scrub". A few taken in the gut. Tdzee scrubs. Their powerful jaws can tear a small mouse-top apart. None at Parni's Creek One, unexpectedly or even, in the Corn River Gorge, a mile above "The Bend". Taken in cliffty place which is surrounded by rocky hills & Pin Forest. One at Upper Night R., 1500 ft; one at Peach River. One at Mt. Diminjan, 1150 ft. One at Barron Water, Cairns.

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Hydromys The water-rat was collected at the "Tip" at Naur Point Camps in the little streams draining the bog behind the dunes. It was not common. One was trapped in a tiny stream passing through stunted vegetation (shrubby), the other in the more densely wooded creek 1 mile to the south, when I took a trap line. No water-rats were taken at Lockubie in the Larradeenya Creek - a clear-water stream with but three groups of arboreal vegetation (where trapped). None was taken at the Tindini River. One in a creek leading to the mangrove swamps of Portland Roads. One in Gordon's Creek, Jim Reys. Two at Burn's Creek. Four at Worek. Two at Archer River. At Corn two (Dr. Venn, Q. Mus., also for one). One at Upper Nichir R., 1500 ft., also one at Peach R., 800 ft. One at Musgrain Telegraph Station. One at Mt Finnigan: Rossville Creek Camp (raw) One at Seegen's farm, 10 mi from Corktown.

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Sminthopsis A species closely resembling S. araeusis of New Guinea was collected at Mt Rags. It lived in grasslands, preferring stony hillsides. None taken further north. It was not easily trapped. Three taken in "open forest" at Mt Tozer, one of them in a swampy area, the others at the hole-riddled base of an old stump. None at Brown's Creek. One at Camp One Pochi, 1500 ft., near survey McLaurith Ranges. A second species - fat tailed - ? possibly new - was taken at forr y cliffs near rock debris and juniper, above the dam at Rifle Creek. It had six young - I could see only 6 nipples. The ears & hairs about them are conspicuous pale to brown, in contrast to the grey down of the body. The thickness of the tail unrelated to natural thickness.

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Antechinus johanni. This large Antechinus was found first at Sinn Rope in the rain forest - both flood plain and hill side. It was fairly abundant. A just climber. The manner was seldom visible. In two females the formula was clearly 5-5=10, arranged ... . A male was shot while clutching a crump on a large tree about 6 feet above the ground. Usually trapped under old logs or any sorts of large trees. Tozer camp scouts also provided a fine series of this describable animal. Now at Dunn's Creek. A series showing possible difference in formula - (4-4) Taken at Mc Lennith Range (Carp Orn-Pocket and Upper Nesbit R). Extremely plentiful at latter. Antechinus flavipes (?). I have at Mt Finnigan, 1150, 2700, 2900 ft. The 3 at 1150 had 7 well developed young attached.

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22 Tochyplossus aculeatus. None found at "rip", though it exists there. One at km Rage, found by "try". Deep in 2-way tole breath to huge rainforest tree by edge of dry gully. Dolsonia magna. One shot by Van out of a bloodwood in flower, behind his home at 9 km Rage. The eyes stored well. A second shot by Ned Reinwell with .22 on low tree in scrubby Heath (N.T.) 4 mile east of km Rage. One (?) seen by Van + Ned in room of abandoned dwelling 5 miles S. of km Rage. Not certainly identified; not collected. One shot at dusk missed (a black fruit bat with [illegible] eyes) at Burrows Creek. (This was probably Pteropus Gouldii, as one which flowed similarly was shot a little late). Two seen (only one collected) in the Wilson River timber at Coen. Two shot at Peck River feeding on Tea tree flowers. Nyctimia Hides in scrub, though timber roads; its eyes shine brilliantly. Saw second at Lockhartie. They seem attracted by light. At Patterd Roads and flew into our lights & settled on my chest. It fluttered to Van & then down into the grass when we captured it. This took place in "gun forest". Seen but not taken at upper Nestor R & Peck R. Mt. Finnigan. 1800 ft

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23 Hippodromo diadema. A small colony of this fire bat taken in "Borden's Mine" at Inn Raygel. It was accompanied by its little H. cervinus at large numbers & Rhinolophus. It congregated at first about 30 feet from the entrance but later moved to a rock chamber 100 feet in and and down, in total darkness. Hippodromo seroni. A specimen in alcohol given by Dr. Keeter at Corkton, the type locality. A & was found laying in an oven inside an open-door shed. The abdominal "nipples" were cream colored in the fresh-killed specimen. A second specimen (no. 10970) from a room in an abandoned hut at Inn Raygel Air Strip. A third found in closet in home 1 mile n.w. of Coen. Four H. seroni netted in trail in rainforest atop of McLaurill Steps - 1800 ft. Hippodromo cervinus A colony of about 100 - mostly in red phase - but one in gray phase was found at Brocket in the drainage of the old Fardine Louse. A few were also taken in the same tunnel at Inn Raygel when they associated with H. diadema and Rhinolophus. One was taken for a small pile set by Van who was netting the cliffs at Newcastle Bay for Taphozous. One picked up dead in room at Inn Ra. Air Strip.

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24 Hypoistus alternans This little species, common in hollow trees in New South, was caught at Lockburie in its "boys" tent. Three specimens. Rhino lphus megaphyllus Evidently a very common bat. About 2000 estimated in Gordon mine tunnel at his Rope. Common flies into Lancegoffs at night. Stone killed three at Lockburie + Lortabille. Common in tunnels in road, Hukelton to Chillys. One at Brown's Creek. Several found by Van in mines at Tunnel Gulley, Wrock. I saw one in the tunnel of the "Howard Boon". Even Van did not catch it. Several noted at upper Nesbit R a few shot in sand road, top of McIlwraith Ropg, 1800 ft One from Lited at Laura, when they kids during th day, laying from the bed springs. Several from water tunnel at Mt Dimijan; two from Lance at Stepton's Plate Three in suburbs 15 mi from Cookton

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Miniopterus Only species sent us from Possession Island; 18 Trip of Cape York (Carpetunnside). One M. australis from Camp Oven Pocket, McHewitt Range ; or from Shipton's Flat. Scotomis Many specimens from various localities, including by series from Thursday Island. Probably several species. One only one nest at Brown's Creek, One nest at Archer Plains. One at Alkabiting, 25 mi from Cooktown. Two " Block Plain. Three " Jeeps's farm.

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Pteropus P. fulvidi. One shot by Van at Lochubi (in Hardwood). Four in Mangroves (by day) at Pallett Road. One on Hardwood flowers at Binn's Creek. Remains of foraged species at Wallock (poisoned parrots) P. conspicillatus. Common in various "carps" on Athelina Tableland. One or more (dead) a few miles north of Caima. One shot at Tea tree flowers at Peach River. No embryo. P. Scapulatus. Two on Hardwoods at Byfield, n.e. of Rockhampton. Readily looks at light; spreads wings under light as display (seemingly). This species possibly in a carp at Wallock (described as "brown" flying foxes). Very abundant at Wallock. Sexes apparently join to separate feeding trees. A number shot. One shot near Peach Creek. One shot by day, roosting in "open forest" on road from Coor to Black R. Another seen. A carp scattered along the Ham River: shot 5. Many long singy. Tea trees full of them at night. One shot at night at Stipton's Hut feeding on flowers of Serian for days camp at Amar Falls, 3 mi from Helovale. P. poliocephalus. What seems to be this species shot at Tea tree flowers or Peach River - all females - all pregnant roost at term. Does this southern species spend the Australian winter this far north & return to S.E. Q + N.S.W. When warmer weather starts then?

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Peak Rock Lookout Hill Ball Hill

Trapez- Van Roy Geo Rat 28 40 60 10 Steel. 27 10 24 Mouse 138 61 20 = 130 lbs. 69 lbs. 61 lbs. - Horse Pair. 1 Boxes 3, 68 - stenis, trays, feet etc. 2 " 77-78 40lbs trape, 1 box batt; 3 " 18-20. 50 lbs trape, med. 4 " 1-2. 40 lbs trape, 1 box batt; 2 cubs 3 swags 2 chains 1 tulla 1 lamp skrews 1 fly food cooking real qutemails. 2 jims 5 Saddlebags (dry cells, Paranoid Anno, Medical, Blackhorse. 26 trape log. 3 Stunt " 24 " . 26 24 4 2 104 48. = 152. Steel trape. 60 = 60 lbs. = 10 per box.

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Camponotus sp? Battle to the death. Major soldier ant attacked by Minor soldier ants of same species. Note the former has completely lost two legs on one side, having been chewed off near the body by the smaller ants. While the small ants were doing this work, Some of them paid dearly with their lives, as the large ant cut several of the smaller ones on half with its mandibles, as is plainly seen by the head attached to the base of hind leg and one on the antennae. These jaws set in a death grip. Subject very much enlarged. N.Geary C%Commercial Banking Coy of Sydney Queen Street Brisbane

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Carnarvon Range "Warrenilla" Kodak Enlargement

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Large earth worm 3feet long Bunya Mountains Kodak Enlargement

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Lubra & Children Whaibri Tribe Central Australia 240 miles N.W. of Alice Springs N. Geary Oct. 1946.

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Lubra + Child Whaibri Tribe Central Australia 240 miles N. W. of Alice Springs N. Geary Oct. 1946

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Lubra Whaibri Tribe Central Australia 240 miles N.W. of Alice Springs N. Geary 08.1946

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Young Lubras. Whaibri Tribe Central Australia 240 miles N. W. of Alice Springs N. Geary Oct. 1946.

1948 Archbold Cape York Expedition C. H. H. Tate Hvan Deussen No. . . . . . . . . . (s.n.) H.F. L.T. T.L. E.

American Museum of Natural History Australia, Cape York 1948

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MAMMALOGY ARCHIVE 100222024 U.S. PATENT OFFICE COMMON SENSE BINDER 128 S ASA L. SHIPMAN'S SCNS NEW YORK

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