Furthftt trapffihg at this loc;i|itv 

 has yielded only luish nil. Ruttin 

 fUSCipti «.vw;n;7i.v brown phascogule. 

 A ti ret ktmtt MiMi tit and Swainson's 



pbasevgalp, 4nte&tnus tHfofrawttb 



In addition, Warnckc (1964) records 

 iIh piesuioe of SWMmp nil {K. hit- 

 no/nv) and fat»g-nOS«J IjarjdicflOl 

 i Prromcles «tt«U4») <it lm.li Valley, 

 anil At P1Sb«iOB BOd Wildlife 

 Department lias records ol I'ncho- 

 umis t,ininu.\, Pctaimis hrcvin'ps. 

 Cymnnhclideu.s Uudhcurcii l'wtnh>- 

 rftmiri pfWgrtVltti Wnlltihin bicaloi. 

 and Vomhurm MUfRMI ni the area. 



4. L/ppci t hompvm Kmtf 



On 22 May 1971 N. A. Wakclield 

 n ippuil a three-quarter* grown male 

 tdiiSWOMlU near the headwaters ol 

 the Upper Thompson River at a jSW 



about in km (i JJ mjs | north -cast 



Of Noojee at an allihide of 1020 m 

 (3350 11) A.S.l. (lat. 37' IS'S. 

 long. 146" 12T-). The specimen is 

 lodged wilh National Museum 



ol Victoria, and the occurrence ai 

 the species in this area will he 

 reported .n full in due cmnse 

 (Wflkctteld, pets, comm.) 



V Mount Haw Hu» 



Mouul Baw Daw Alpine Village 

 is elo.se to ihe summit ol Mount Uaw 

 Haw. 114 km f?l mis) east of Mel- 

 bourne, and at an nll.lude of about 

 1460 m (4800 ft) AST. (lal. t7 

 M S. long. 146' I7K). Most ol the 

 area is a lairly dense woodland ul 

 Euiuhpms paucillon, with a low 

 ihrub understorey. hut elose to the 

 village die liasi I fettjtl River runs 

 through a wide Hat valley, where the 

 vcgelation is dominated by Ruhca 

 iLinfmeiuis. Within the foiested 

 area there uie many outcrops of 

 granite (see Plate I ) It was close 

 to (MA such outcrop that P. N. 

 Homan of the Mammal Survey 

 Croup. F.N.C.V., trapped an adult 



314 



a ale \t,iM<it PMU'.V fl&i us m Maich 

 1969, Ihe animal was Happed m 

 mu.w glass sp.) inula moun- 



lam pi-ppL'i (Jftrimyx wopjilli) 



HjhJi I snow gum ( / itftilvpitts pan, ,. 

 ffarus) I he area was visiled by tin. 

 author ill May I07R I rapping was 

 earned out in hfllh available habiini 

 l\ pis (/:. patnijlimi woodland ami 

 RMm swamp) but no further speci- 

 mens ol Afa.MuqOfN.VJ wvrt laken. 



The Baw Haw plateau is composed 

 of upper Devonian granite and the 

 soils are mainly alpine humus soiIn 

 (Organic Loamy Soils) although iu 

 the creek valleys thev appealed M be 

 much deepet and nchei in organic 

 mailer and probably approached a 

 bog peat Among the extensive gran- 

 ite outcrops soil was thin alio 

 restricted to the fault line-.. (Anon 

 |%4. (oslin 1 962. Neilson 1 962). 



There ate no detailed iiicteuiu 

 logical records for ilu: Baw Baw 

 plateau, but Hogg ( 197(1) indicates 

 that rainfall is in excess of I 'ill cm 

 per annum, with heaviest falls in win- 

 ter and spring Summer rainfall is 

 about JW cm, rathei higher than 

 that recorded ul Hotham Heights. 

 Snow tails Usually oecm between Muv 

 and Octoher. With persistent SHOW 

 lying during Ihe winter .md spina' 

 Winter mean maximum temptraluics 

 are about 7 2>C\ and mem muxi 

 mum temperatures in summer prob 

 ,.blv do not exceed I XT". 



The dominant plants in the aiea 

 were £ pOUClflOnl glowing Uj a 

 heiuht of 6-9 m, with a mid-dense 

 canopy loterspvrscd with the mulu- 

 stcmnied living trees were many 

 standing lire-killed slatp,. The Inw 

 shruh layer varied in height I tow 

 0* 1.5 m dependent on aspect, 1100 

 in density from open to vcrv dense 

 It was dominated by Drimys titty 

 phila. Uucopounn mu&itfl and rV- 

 tetwa inciUli-rt. With scattered hushes 



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