J* 16 attitudes of burial of 72 skeletons excavated at seven sites in the Murray Valley 15 V u t0na between Mildura and the S. Australian border and at one site at Lake Victoria N.S.W., are described. The antiquity of the burials in Victoria is from 4,000 to 6,000 years B.P. Orientation varied widely, but the head was placed predominantly in a S. direction. Orientation at Lake Victoria was random, and the burials were comparatively recent. Extreme tooth wear to a helicoidal plane of occlusion was frequent. A unique burial with a widow's cap m place on the head is described. Cranial types are illustrated by reference to eight skulls. Methods of removing complete skeletons as they lay in situ are described the Chowilla dam some 30 km upstream from Renmark on the Murray River in S. Australia.Human skeletal remains were found widely distributed between Wentworth, N.S. Wales and the S. Australian border (Fig. 1), but the majority excavated came from eight burial sites.The modes of burial and attitudes of these skeletons together with their antiquity and related matters are the subject of this paper. Burial SitesOf the eight burial sites concerned, seven were S. of the Murray River in Victoria and one was on the NE. side of Lake Victoria in N.S. Wales. The locations of the burial sites are shown in Fig. 1 and details of the individual sites are plotted in Figs. 2-3.

The European rabbit flea Spilopsyllus cuniculi (Dale) was first released on Macquarie Island in December 1968. The flea has survived and bred on the island and about 30% of the rabbits sampled from the original release area in January 1972 were flea-infested.

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