Plate 3. Melaleuca swamp ami surrounding Xanthonhora heathlaml al Carlisle Rivet 



HhoKi: J Stthc-V 



to the swamp was a sandy rise bear- 

 ing scrubby open Eucalyptus humeri 



and t. nuliutu, with Dillwynia uluber- 

 rimu antl Bunksia marxinata wide- 

 spread, together with many other 

 typieaily heath species forming a low. 

 dense shrub layer. 



Other native mammals collected at 

 Carlisle River in 1965 were the hush 

 rat, Rutins fttsctpes ussiinilis and the 

 swamp rat, R. tutreolus: The latter 

 seemed to he more abundant. Local 

 propem owners reported the presence 



bandicoot (probably Isoodon nhc- 

 sulus), grey kangaroo [Macropus 

 gigemtelis) and black wallaby ( Wai- 

 labia hicolor). 



I I. OieS Aire 



Mulvaney ( I V62 ) reported the 

 excavation of two rock shelter., 

 which had been used by aboriginals 

 near the mouth of the Aire RjVci 

 (lat. 38° 4S'S, long. 143* 29'E). Some 

 mammalian bone remains were recov- 

 ered from stratified layers in Shelter 

 2. These remains included A/utw- 

 COtnyi material in the upper-rmw 

 layer (Layer 1). This material ha 

 recently been examined hy the author 

 311(3 consists tjj six maxillarv lOQtt 

 rows and a single damaged right rftatt- 

 dtble: the remains probably represent 

 three individuals. 



Mulvaney considered thai accunn 

 lation of Layer I probably began ICS! 



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