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...interested to learn that the potoroo is considered a rarity. Last September I had occasion to avail myself of the privilege of making my headquarters at the Prickly Pear Field Station at Cogango, Queensland. There I was informed that the potoroo was considered a pest, since it was reputed to have a fondness for potato tubers. Rat-kangaroos were nightly visitors to the Station grounds. By ground thumping they betrayed their presence. I saw one at its thumping leap upward four or five feet...
Last week a stern-faced delegation of unemployed women let it be known that unless the Hon. H. E. Sizer, Minister for Labor and Industry in Queensland, consented to meet them and discuss a definite program of unemployment relief they would take off all their clothes and parade through the main streets of Brisbane, naked...
...hope to get bats there at last, also fossils are known from the caves, etc. Probably we turn east again by late November, when Schevill and I plan to get to Alice Springs in very central Australia for desert things we are told occur here. We hope to make Queensland, perhaps not till Dr. Wheeler's return in late December. Everyone says, when we tell how few the things are here, 'But in the North...
Australians have heard stories before of huge lizards in their continent's desolate interior. They have given the species, of which no specimen is known to have been killed, the name "prenty." Queensland has ocean-going crocodiles, second cousins of lizards, 33 ft. long, largest on earth. It has huge monitor lizards which can run, swim, climb facilely. The largest monitor lizards known are savage "dragons" on the East Indian islands Komodo, Rintja and Flores. They attain loft. lengths. There is good reason to assume that the scary "prenty" is an Australian monitor...
...scarcely more Australian than Melba herself. In Australia she grew up as Nellie Porter Mitchell, daughter of a rigid Scottish contractor who thwarted all her early efforts to make music a profession. He relented after her unfortunate marriage to Charles Nesbitt Armstrong, manager of a sugar plantation in the Queensland Bush, whom she left two months after the birth of her son George. She left her son, too, although she continued to provide for him. When he was 23 their reconciliation took place in Kansas City, and in recent years she had displayed great pride in grandmothering his daughter Pamela...