6.17 P.M. for been bought by them. And we have yet to see our first marsupial. Tuesday, May 26. Showers at night. Nothing at all in traps. Local natives beginning to go home to their home gardens, they come 15 or 20 still bring in odd things like bananas, crayfish, birds, an occasional bat, or fish. The bird trap still low but possibly improving. Going to give him a little more food. Bat net catches nothing but an occasional beetle here. All things together, I'll be very pleased to get away from this camp, though that will not be for a long time yet. Comprising a new lot of Eugenia fruit, coco-nut and honey. A specimen of terrestrial Melonyp brought in by locals – a female – the maximm 3.5 mm across / width third foot across the metatarsals of their toe 6.0 or more than 50%. Several more Nyctimenes including at last a male of the smaller of the two species, also a Dolsonia brought in in the afternoon. Moved the bat net to span the 'first' orch. Hope it may produce something besides beetles. Letters from Healy received were bought this afternoon by the Police Sergeant who came by raft from the Black River bringing down a police man who had cut himself with a bush knife. Healy wrote from the north bank of the Black, and Willis was due to reach the 610 mile mark on