LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



PLATES. 



Plate 1 is reproduLt'd from Photoi^raplis by Mr. W. A. Horn. 

 Plates 2-11 are reproduced Jrom Photographs by the Author. 



Plate 1. 



Plate 2. 



Plate 3. 



Plate 4. 



Plate 5. 



Plate 6. 



Plate 7. 



Plate 8. 



Plate 9. 



Plate 10. 



Plate 11. 



Camel Buj^gy. 

 Arrival at Water 

 Camp A.sleep, 5 a.m. 

 Giljbers 



Camels llesting. 

 I)e.sert Oak.s.* 

 Grass Trees. 

 Castle Rocks 

 Lake Amadeus. 

 Crown Puint 

 Chambers Pillar - 

 Ayers Rock 

 ]Mouiit Olga 

 Red bank Gorge - 

 Finke Gorge 

 Palm Creek 



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12 



15 



33 

 49 



85 



91 



104 



108 



114 



ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT. 



Nest of Social Caterpillar - ^ ------ 44 



Sand tube made on a leaf of Porcupine Grass by Ants to enclose 



Coccidie ----- 70 



Cycads — Encephalarfos jMacdoiDielli ■ - - -' - - 77 



Porcupine Grass — Triodia pungens ------ 85 



Ayers Rock — t(j show weathering - . - - . - 86 

 Diagrammatic section across the country from the Burt Plains 



in the north to the James Range in the south - - 103 



]\Iulga Trees — Acacia aneura ■ - - - - 122 



* By iiiisfake this illustiation is entitled " Porcupine (Jiass." 



