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Show 1884.] DISCOVERED IN QUEENSLAND. 407 and climbing plants spread themselves over the ground. Soon we come to a hilly and broken country, where the ground is more fertile ; and here the vegetation is so dense that a man can only with the greatest difficulty work himself through it, torn to pieces by the so-called "lawyer palms" and stung by the nett\es(Laportea moroides). The very troublesome " lawyer palms" are predominant in these mountainous scrubs, sometimes by their coils absolutely stopping the passage. But the variety of trees and plants otherwise is also very great. Those which near the top are most conspicuous by their beauty are the tree-ferns, that spread their magnificent fronds over the rivulets. Further down are bananas abundant, together with various kinds of palms. After passing across the summit of this range, one finds oneself again in a forest country, the eastern tongues of Leichhardt's great basaltic tableland. At the commencement of this tableland there are still low hills and valleys covered with somewhat similar scrubs, but they are not so dense, because the " lawyer palms" are rarer here. The country I explored in the ten months I spent near Herbert River stretches from the lower Herbert, containing the (low) ridges on both sides of the river ; but principally that hilly land between the Herbert River and Cardwell, from Herbert Vale northwards about 6 miles above Herbert-River waterfall. None of the new mammals go south of Dalrymple gap. Phalangista lemuroides and Dendrolagus lumholtzi are not found in the range south of Herbert River (sea-view range) ; and it is also very doubtful whether Phalangista archeri and P. herbertensis are to be found there. 1. P. archeri, called by the blacks Toollah (supra, p. 381), is not uncommon in the upper part of these mountainous scrubs. It seems to be more commonly distributed than P. herbertensis and P. lemuroides, though it never goes far down the mountains. Besides being, like the Phalangers, a night animal, it is in activity a great part of the day, as I have seen myself. The blacks kill it by climbing up the tree and throwing sticks at it, which often is very troublesome work. The animal is not very shy, but, when disturbed, it runs away quickly from tree to tree, so that a black man will sometimes have difficulty in killing it, if he has not got two or three of his comrades to meet it in different trees. Phalangista archeri is the principal prey of Dasyurus maculatus, which is plentiful in the same country. 2. Phalangista herbertensis (supra, p. 3S3), called by the blacks Mongan, is only found on the very highest tops of the ranges. 3. Phalangista lemuroides (supra, p. 385), called by the blacks Yabby, is not found in that part of the range that lies east of Gowry Creek. It makes its appearance first at the spur of mountains between Gowrv Creek and Herbert River, and is pretty plentiful from there northwards. I shot the only two specimens I got in one of the tableland scrubs. It is killed by the blacks in the same way as P. archeri. 4. Dendrolagus lumholtzi (supra, p. 387), called by the blacks |