L.23. P.11. Thur, Sep. 3. Seven mammals but nothing new today. Rain last night & barometer again high. The young wallaby seems late growing. When scared she makes a noise like a sort of whispered cough. She scratches with the syndactyloous toes of the hind foot. She has made a second form. When she drinks she laps like a dog or a cat. She occasionally sits with her tail right under her and pointing forwards, thus sitting with the dorsal surface of the tail on the ground. After morning took the big dinghy + my 4 traps rowed down to the SW corner of the lake. About an hour each way. Mixture of forest, ti-tree swamp & rush swamp. May try traps there later on. Three landcrabs caught in dry hollows after lunch. Saturday Sept. 4. Archibald on radio said they were due in Marysv at 5 o'clock tonight so in the next day or two we ought to learn something definite about the future. Rain last night, not heavy though. Dr traps across the burnt area: one Rattus brachyurus and two Plesacomys & + f. They were trapped as was the previous one along the junction of swamp with the burnt area. Can move traps over there as I want to get like to get a pot series of them. P.M. Have now 227 net traps over the burnt area + reaching along the edge of the swampy unburnt parts. Hope for quite a large catch. Sat., Sept. 5. A sort catch from across the water to N.E.: 5 Plesacomys +4 Rattus brachyurus. The plesacomys comprised 2 & + 3 f. Of the latter one was young, another was well developed + the pouch contained 6 mammals. Its third had 6 pouch young - i.e. the full complement for it also had only 6 mammae. 6 is apparently the specific number for this species. There is no unpaired central mamma as with Dromicia. Two of Bross's boys cut a savanna Mimosa for firewood + found at the top of a dry hollow cavity which opened at the bottom, an animal allied to Doctylopsila