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remainder of the trip. As soon as we approached the 

 Adminga Creek bird life became evident, and several fresh 

 forms were met with. Continuing up the creek we came to 

 the telegraph line and followed it over the South Australian 

 border into the Northern Territory, calling at Charlotte 

 Waters for our mail, watered the camels at the bore close by, 

 and camped for the night a few miles further on. A more 

 easterly course next day brought us in sight of Larapinta, or 

 Finke River, for the first time, and we entered upon a new 

 class of country, aptly called by Professor Baldwin Spencer 

 "Larapinta Land." We were beginning to lose sight of the 

 large round bushes commonly called "roley poley" (Salsola 

 kali), and saw a few clumps of the true spinifex (Spinifex 

 paradoxus). The Finke River in times of flood spreads out 

 over a wide area, the main course being shallow here and 

 filled up with loose sand. Where the flood waters run out 

 over the adjacent flats a thick growth of swamp gums 

 (Eucalyptus microtheca ) was seen, but on both sides of the 

 channel a fine fringe of red gums was growing. Following 

 up the course of the Finke we stayed one night at New Crown 

 Point station, and next day followed the course of the river. 



On the first day out from New Crown Point station a 

 fresh bird came under our notice; it was the Red-browed 

 Babbler (Pomatostomns temporalis rubeculus). They were 

 moving about in small parties, calling loudly after the man- 

 ner of other members of the genus. Several days prior to 

 this we collected specimens of the Black-banded Whiteface 

 (A phelocephala nigricincta ) . This is some 200 miles south 

 of where the Horn Expedition discovered these birds and 

 made them known to science. We also found in the same 

 locality a bird much resembling the Murchison Whiteface 

 ,( Aphelocephala pectoralis castaneiventris, Milligan). This 

 bird was mistaken by the Horn Expedition for A . leucopsis. 

 When working up the dry bed of the Finke we occasionally 

 lialted the main party for a day and made excursions back 

 into the sandhill country, but found it very dry, and very 

 little, if any, life in it. Yellow sandstone cliffs began to 

 appear in the banks of the river, and one day the very 

 peculiar flat-topped hill, known as Crown Point, came into 

 sight. We passed close under it, and found it to be com- 

 posed of a soft and friable sandstone with a hard desert- 

 sandstone capping. We now crossed the Finke not far from 

 where Sturt first saw this great sandy river bed and gave it 

 the name of the Finke, after William Finke, of Adelaide. 

 On the next day we left the course of the river, cutting off 

 a large bend, and crossed its sandy bed at a weird place 

 called Horseshoe Bend; here we saw a native camp and one 



