and will be with us for a time to collect. The Queensland Museum wants mainly birds and mammals for exhibition purposes. Vernon an energetic, positive but quiet and likeable young chap trained at Melbourne museum. Pitched right in to help us upon our arrival. His museum should send him to New York and Chicago to learn techniques in which Australia is far behind. Monday May 31: Traps set last night yielded a 2 per cent catch: 1 Hydromys and 1 Melomys. Jacking last night, Van shot out of a tree what he thought was a possum, and George, something he thought was Uromys. Neither beast could be found on search this morning. As a sequel to a visit to our camp last evening, Jack Gordon, who was one of the party on the wharf, has unravelled for me the mystery of that vegetable bunyip, the "turkey bush." From all quarters we have been hearing of turkey bush and marsupial tigers and taipans. The marsupial tiger may be truly a myth. The taipan, the "five-minute" snake terror of the Peninsula, has not yet found its way into our forma- line can. When cornered on the subject, not one of our previous inform- ants had been able to describe or point out a turkey bush. When we were at Lockerbie, turkey bush grew down toward the Jardine. "You go through five miles of it at Sanamere Lagoon," said old Dick Holland. At Sana- mere, Old Dick said you had to go south of the Jardine to see it. Joe the cook said he knew it grew near Cleremont, 1000 miles to the south. After breakfast this morning, Jack Gordon, whose word goes without question on the Peninsula, took me a mile along the Iron Range road to a small shrubby patch. The shrub he pointed out as dominant of one of the six types of turkey bush scrub known to him, and present in all, was a true Australian heath of the Epacridaceae (18957). The same species was a major underbrush element of the black teatree scrubs 3 miles from Lockerbie, and at Newcastle Bay, and Sanamere and the Jardine River. Friday June 4: Have about finished our short term at Portland Roads. We move in to Iron Range tomorrow. Work here, interrupted by a reconnaissance of the Iron Range area, has yielded me 87 numbers, 557 sheets. Most of my plants were collected in the savanna-forests, and on the Aylen Hills. A few came from brushy rain-forest on the hillsides and on sandy flats behind the mangroves. The country is generally sandy granitic ridges on which only occasional granite rocks are seen. The prevailing vegetation is savanna-forest in which a bloodwood (18952) is principal tree. Another bloodwood (18964), identical with the species prevalent north of the Jardine, comes in on flats and the lower ridges. On the stoney slopes and spur ridges of the Aylen Hills a box (Eucalyptus 18991) replaces the bloodwoods. Moreton Bay ash oc- curs in abundance, and grows to larger size than any of the other eucalypts, about the edges of the small bodies of rain-forest. Broad- leaved forms of protean Melaleuca leucadendron are the principal trees on sour sandy flats, while a narrow-leaved form, with stem divided near the base, grows along the edges of sandy watercourses. Apparently not one of the forms of M. leuc. collected north of the Jardine occurs here, and vice versa. A Hakea (18958), the first seen on the Peninsula, is common locally on the teatree flats. A glabrous, small-leaved Petalostigma (18970), very distinct from the widespread P. quadriloculare occurs with the latter species on the lower ridges. 104