Aug. 23 (Cont'd) My collecting on the Claudie was cut short by an attack of 'flu which laid me low on the afternoon of the 20th, and from which I am starting to recover today. I did not much enjoy the 4½ hour ride back to this camp yesterday. My total collection from the Rocky was 128 numbers. But for ferns and mosses, for which this has been my richest camp so far, the plant collection would have been poor. The season was wrong for rainforest plants. Saw many species which I could not collect. Should say that in the proper season a good collection of small trees could be made. Canopy species seem to be few. Palms abound in numbers of individuals and excluding Calamus, 8 spp. were seen and 4 spp. collected. Abundant all through the forest is a fan palm (Licuala) apparently con-specific with the sp. collected at Iron Range. An Archontophoenix occurs in gullies up the creek. A big feather palm by the waterside is the same as one got on Bonanza and Gordon Creeks. In ferns, a small treefern (Cyathea), like a sp. got on Tozer Range and in the mountains near Cairns, is abundant and conspicuous. Most inconspicuous and perhaps a real prize, is a tiny Schizaea-like thing (19963), like a blade of grass 3-cleft at the top, growing on a mossy log beside the creek. Don got few birds. They were there in plenty but cover was thick and birds were not easy to get. Geoff's insect collection was poor. Night flying things were very few until the last night or two when partly cloud and warmer conditions brought more satisfactory catches at the lamp. Slightly more than 100 mammals were taken at the two camps. A large Melomys from the Claudie might be new. Antechinus and Rattus made up most of the catch at the Claudie. Smiththopsis, representing a southern extension of range of the species taken at Iron Range (and on into New Guinea), was trapped in the grass at Campoven Pocket. Bats include Nyctophilus and Mineopteris?, new to the collection; more Rhinoplophus seemanni, Scotinus, etc. Bats were taken by netting a fly-way tunnel in rainforest above the Claudie camp, and by shooting. George, Van and Roy returned here about 1:30 this afternoon. Thus ended our trip into the Rocky Scrub. Thompson's truck should be here this evening or to- morrow morning to take us back to Coen. At this camp, since his return, Don has taken a good lot of birds and has added 6 brown cus-cus and one spotted cus-cus to his mammal collection. I should like to see more brown cus-cus in our collection. We have only one from here, and I think two from Iron Range. Don's best take here was an Acrobates, taken in a trap this morning. This is the second specimen of that tiny arboreal marsupial taken on the expedition. The first was shot by Van, then swallowed by a snake at Newcastle Bay. Now we have the second, catched in a rat trap set on the ground! Willie Alf Young has done a good job handling the horses and packing for us. Fortunately for his record, somewhat tarnished by the loss of one pack horse on the way out from Coen, the second lost horse came back to camp of its own accord after being away for a couple of days. The horses are in almost as good condition as when we got them, and they show fewer sore backs and girth galls. But after I went up top Alf fired most of the grass along the trail. It was against instructions, but in this country everyone burns grass, and Alf's action did clear the trail and make his one- man trips easier. About the only bit of unburned grass in the mountains this side of Campoven Pocket was where I lost my watch on the 11th. This morning I told Alf to drop matches into that, and search again for the watch. No result.