Sat Oct 10. Town (at least my) surprise Band got in at 15 minutes after midnight. He had heard the signal whist of the boys & at last worked his way to them, they fell apart away. He reports them joined into a band of Klondike campers up the creek. Also two tree swamps + 2. Trap line with 2 Rattlers, 1 yr Melmys, 1 Melmy. Spurt among with a trap cutting down them with holes in them. Two Mercurys lunii and 2 Dacypsis trapped in. A good chance to compare these externally very similar wallabies. M[el]gure Meagrus Dacypsis Col. and external characters Relatively brownish grey dark cheeks & stripe A hip stripe Tail white beneath Ear white inside Hair not reversed from withers to rump Feeling relatively long (foot 40 mm.) Girth hind foot metatarsus mm width part 58 mm. Foot relatively long + heavy Tip of tail beneath without enlarged tactile scales Relatively fawnish grey. No cheek stripe No hip stripe. Tail grey beneath. Ear pigmented inside. Hair reversed .... Girth hinders (foot 30 mm.) Girth ... narrow waist part 48 mm. Foot relatively short + slight. Tip of tail beneath with enlarged scales One of the just trap lamps caught fire in the evening. Two traps were fierce. Sun. Oct. 11. Talked to VH W 3. Healy & Police got through day Williams's place to Genville OK! Blue is fat as well. He bit only one of the police. In trap Melmys, Rattlers, 4 two app of Melmys. Just heard a couple of boys singing off "the dance refrain of the Lake Darwin trip" "O'mally Joe The Melmy's taken Oct 9 was trapped at the edge of a tiny tidal creek behind a fringe of fresh water mangrove right on the banks of the Jolly R. beat out "freckling". Found two white fruit bats feeding but could not get their eyes & saw nothing else but five flies.