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The mortality among the station natives appears to be 

 very great indeed : witness the numbers of recent graves in 

 the burial areas (pi. xxii., fig. 1). If the white man has been 

 responsible for the introduction of clothing and its implied 

 sense of modesty, he is also responsible for the introduction 

 of many diseases among these children of Nature. The 

 Government has in its wisdom introduced reserves for the 

 blackfellow, but he has to live under the conditions of and 

 in contact with the white man ; and herein lies the secret of 

 his extermination from the face of what was once his own 

 countrv. 



The naturalist finds that the altered conditions are a 

 distinct disadvantage ; these station natives being well 

 supplied with food and tobacco, cannot be induced to collect 

 specimens, and as the smaller mammals and reptiles can 

 scarcely be otherwise obtained, the collections suffer greatly 

 in consequence. 



(g) MAMMALIA AND OPHIDIA. 



By Edgar R. Waite, F.L.S., Director South Australian 



Museum. 



Mammalia. 



Gould's Bat (Chalinolobus gouldii, Gray). 



Scotophilus gouldii, Gray : Grey's Journ. App., 1841, p. 405. 



The day following that on which we left the Cooper at 

 Cuttapirie Corner, namely, on October 9, we secured a single 

 specimen of this species, the only one obtained on the 

 expedition, and not previously recorded from the Interior. 

 After removing four eggs of a Budgerigar ( M elopsitticus 

 undulatus) from a dead tree, we overturned the stump, and 

 the bat crawled out. From this tree we also took a pair of 

 Click beetles ( Agrypnus mastersi). 



Grey's Bat (Scotophilus greyii, Gray). 

 (See Dobson: Cat. Chiroptera, Brit. Mus., 1878, p. 263.) 

 Later in the same day as that on which the forenamed 

 species was taken, I pulled over another stump and a stream 

 of bats emerged. There must have been between three and 

 four dozen of them, all of the same species. We took a small 

 number, from which the identification is made. 



They agree well with the description of Scotophili/s 

 greyii, but there is certainly indication of a small posterior 

 cusp on the cingulum of the upper incisors. The colour above 



