.for some personal reason Pinwell did not wish to meet "Snowy" Baker, a Main Roads man who is doing a survey of the crossing. We drove to within about 4 miles of the river. Brown's Creek, already under con- sideration as a camp site, proved the most interesting and different country botanically, but I doubt if there is enough change in the country to warrant a mammal collecting camp here after working Tozer's Gap. Rocky granite hills, carrying scrubby low forest, and extensive areas of turkey bush, make Brown's Ck. attractive botanically. The spring-fed running creek has made the road crossing a favored camp site for travelers. Many plants occur which I have not seen before. Pinwell turns out to be a very keen observer of animal life and a man with considerable knowledge of creatures that live in the bush. Through his knowledge of their habits, we were able to collect speci- mens of a small dark brown crab that hid under boulders half buried in the sand of One-Mile Ck. And on the way home he stopped the jeep to cut out a "sugarbag" (nest of a native stingless bee). The makers of the sugar bag were a bee of the kind that builds a protruding funnel of wax as an entrance to their nest. Honey very dark in color, and very heavily sweet. Monday June 14: Overcast day with some heavy showers through day as well as last night. Wind abated, and more southerly than SE. These may be the regular June rains. Spent day in camp, attending to yesterday's take of 24 spp., and the ordinary routine of attending to collections. Many of the rain- forest plants are thick and fleshy and have to be put through the driers two, or even three or four times. The country visited west of the Janet Range yesterday is climatic- ally drier than any visited previously on the Peninsula, and there are marked differences in flora, especially on the ridges which carry shrub- beries called turkey bush. Most of these shrubberies are dominated by Agonis. I saw a few heath bushes in only one place. My collections were mainly from the shrubberies, where plants were easy to see from the jeep. Numerous new additions to the collection in genera and species, includ- ing my first conifer for the trip - Callitris 19185, from Brown's Creek. Another "first" for Van was a Sminthopsis (marsupial mouse) caught in one of his traps this morning. George says probably a race of a species of which he collected a large series on Lake Daviumbu in 1936, Genus previously unknown from the Peninsula. Cus-cus keep coming in, and today Moreton departed from the straight and narrow and shot a tasty porker from which we had chops this evening. Cus-cus collecting uses up cartridges at a rapid rate. Eight shots were put into the last specimen, and then the boys had to cut the three down to get it. Don Vernon now has a blackboy to hunt for him. One of a party re- turning to Lockhart River Mission from employment on a trochus vessel called the "Wouthwind". James Butcher is supposed to be a good hunter. Don needs him. Don works and tries tremendously, but he is inexperi- enced in field work and has yet to get one of the mammals he wants for mounting.