17/47 SPECIES A.M.N.H. No. 153482 MAMMAL DEPT. DICKAREE WATERHOLE - 10 miles south of BIRDSVILLE; S.E. Queensland East margin of Simpson Desert. AUSTRALIAN SECTION COLLECTOR: L. MACMILLAN. COLL. NO. M. 7. DATE 28TH MAY 1940 SPECIES SEX ♂ SHOT 2.30 P.M. Dig out. CONDITON GONADS. Large & white. WGT. 13.05 gm. SKL. STM. +, full of white kernel of some seed or possibly the bulb of the onion grass. Captured by digging out of burrow in sand-hill TOTAL: 153 mm. TAIL: 80 mm H.E.C.U: 17.5mm H.E.A.C. 9 mm. MOULT WING R. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25. Sec. L. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25. Sec. TAIL R. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 L. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10. BODY ABR. W. T. UPPERS-RUMP UNDERS-VENT LOWER BACK FLANKS UPPER BACK BELLY NAPE BREAST CROWN NECK CHEEKS CHIN Up COVS. Up COVS. UN COVS. UND. COVS. UND. COVS. W./T. SKULL NUMBERED No. M. 7. REMARS The mice are seldom seen but tracks are numerous. Probably their greatest enemy they have is the kite-hawk which is extremely abundant hereabouts. Brown doublers account for an odd one found far from a burrow. In small feeding burrows close to the main larger burrows one can trace where they have been burrowing about looking for food, probably during the day time. These small feed burrows are just below the surface + may be opened by inserting a finger or lightly lifting upwards as they are seldom more than an inch deep + in this loose sand easily dugl open. Doubtless numbers are killed by cattle crushing them in such burrows. Remains sink into them + possibly crush an odd one unlucky enough to be in the road. Foxes may account for numbers when larger food is scarce & doublers snakes, especially the fast moving species called locally "Whip snake", account for large numbers infact they may be their main diet. S. & MCO. PTY. LTD., MELB., NO. 4764. Body 73.