4:45 Summit of dividing ridge. 5 shot pams, color and black and white, from west to Big Tableland and Mt. Amos. Alt. 3500 ft. 5:45 Junction of my new trail with trail to camp water place. 6:05 Back in camp. In another 15 minutes the light would have been too dim in the rain forest for us to see the trail. Was glad to see blackboy Roy attending to a big billycan of stew hung over the fire. Phenomenal results from traps last night. Van and Roy, in 45 traps set in rain forest, caught 26 mammals - 3 Melomys, the rest Rattus. Nothing in 20 traps set in savanna forest. Don, for 24 traps, got 8 Rattus. Jacking last night, Van shot a spiny anteater. Today Van went with me to the 5200 (actually over 5300 ft.) level and set 25 traps in the shrubberies and low scrubby high mountain forest. Today Don shot some half a dozen birds. Van and Don will work late by lamplight tonight. Wednesday, Sept. 8 9:45 Left mountain camp for return to Shipton's Flat. Kodachromes: White Dendrobium - 2600 ft. View to North through trees - 2500 ft. Shipton's Flat and Kings Plain from Lookout rock, ca. 2100 ft. Ecotone rain forest and savanna forest from same lookout. Savanna forest of stringy bark, bloodwood, oak, grass tree and kangaroo grass - 1850 ft. Parrot Ck. at crossing - 1060 ft. 11:45 Back at Shipton's Flat. Before leaving the mountain camp I went up the trail to the 2850 ft. level to collect Agapetes moorehouseana, there a large liana dropping its tubular red flowers on the leafy floor of the rain forest. It is the only member of the blueberry family known from Australia. Yesterday I collected sterile specimens of it on the summit of Mt. Finnegan, where it is a low shrub, and Van brought down one flowering sprig from the shrubberies at 3300 ft. We traveled slowly on the way down today. Casuarina duff made footing slippery on the steeper slopes. I carried a 25 lb. pack of specimens; Willie had up nearly 40 lbs. On my climb to the top of the mountain on the 7th, it became clear that the wartime survey party had gone another way, and climbed the peak by a more direct and much steeper route. Our route and theirs corresponded only at the beginning and the end. We got off the route described by Snow at the first fork of the old timber hauling road 200 ft. above Shipton's Flat on our first reconnaissance of the mountain, and I did not strike it again until I got to 3400 ft. on the 8th. The route described by Snow is similar to the one followed by us in regard to county and general direction. Snow mentioned 2 big high granite rocks as marking the place on a ridge crest where they found the going too hard thru undergrowth and struck down to the right to a gully carrying permanent water. There are two big rocks on the crest of the ridge from which