telegraph station. This morning I shot a "scrub turkey" (one of the megapodes). A shameful exhibition of shooting. Went out with two rounds of No. 6 and two of buck in my pockets. A brace of turkeys flushed from the ground and lit on trees in the forest. I wounded the first and killed the second with sixes; let go the two rounds of buck at the wounded bird, and it flew away. Sunday April 25: Half expected to find George's blackboy Moreton gone this morning, but all three turned up to eat their usual hearty breakfast. Moreton approached George yesterday for Sunday off, and permission to go home to Cowal Creek, some 20 miles away. Said there was a law against work on Sunday. Came in to see me about it, but lost his nerve and stayed awhile watching me work on plants. We must work seven days a week, most weeks, and the boys will get extra pay for it. A very good day for both mammals and plants. Fifteen rats in traps, including Uromys, new to the collection for this locality. Another Dactylopsila shot by Van last night, and this evening the boys swatted two horseshoe bats in their tent. These were the first bats taken or seen here. According to George's lists, a total of 16 mammals are known from the vague locality "Cape York." We have 8 species from this camp in 4 days. My collecting was done between camp and Laradenya Creek, about 3/4 mile to the northwest. Most of my plants were from savanna-forest on sandy soil close to the creek. The creek itself is very narrowly fringed with gallery woods of rain-forest trees. The savanna-forest of the extensive sandy flats in the valley of the creek are characterized by bloodwood trees around 40 ft. tall, and contain an abundance of Tristania longivalvis, with rose-scented yellow flowers, Parinarium nonda, Acacia 18399, and one of the beefwoods (Grevillea sp.). The grasses are chiefly Heteropogon insignis and Pennisetum? 18368, their leafy parts forming a thick cover about shoulder high, and their flower spikes rising to about 7 or 8 feet. Treeless sand patches (all the soil is reddish), are occupied by slender, drooping Aristida 18419, with Eragrostis 18420, E. 18422, and Cyperaceae 18421 as frequent minor associates. In the gallery woods, actually on the brink of the creek bank, I found a solitary example of a puzzling tree (18413) with the smooth grey, scrolled bark of a gum tree, small capsules like those of a Eucalyptus, and the leaf scent of a melaleuca. Have seen nothing like it before. Mails today, brought from T.I. by a picnic party which visited a telegrap booster station near Cape York. Maximum temp.. 31, min. 24. Yesterday - 31 max., 21 min. Monday April 26: The best day yet for plants - 37 spp., 201 sets. Collected in savanna forest along the Somerset road to about 3/4 mile from camp, mostly on a hard lateritic ridge where many annuals grow with small "fire" grasses. No particularly striking plants. Grasses, sedges, and small legumes well represented.