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THE NATURALIST IN AUSTRALIA. 



Taking the Australian types of Termitaria observed and photographed by 

 the author in consecutive order, reference may first be made to the form reproduced as 



TKKMITE NESTS, ALBANY PASS, NORTH QUEENSLAND. 



the corner illustration of the opening page of this Chapter, 

 and also on the present page. This description of Ant- 

 hill is very prevalent in Cape York Peninsula, in the 



W t Saville-Kent, Photo. 



North of Queensland, and more especially in the neighbourhood of the Albany Pass, 

 where the photographs here reproduced were taken. These Termite mounds form so 

 conspicuous a feature of the landscape on approaching the Pass from the south, 

 that the name of Ant-Hill Point was conferred upon 

 it by one of the earlier navigators, and is still 

 retained upon the Admiralty Charts. To passengers 



ANT-HILL POINT, AI.KANY PASS, NORTH QUEENSLAND. 



W. SaMle-Kent, 



