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wild tiirke}', these snares are about eigliteen inches long, one 

 end stif! and strong, made by twisting the feathers from the wing 

 of the turke}', the other end is limp and has a loop made of 

 human hair, these snares are tied on to the end of a spear and 

 hekl just above the grass by a native who creeps up to his ]}vey 

 disguised by fresh boughs tied round his head, and the bird 

 being naturally a stupid, inr[iii.sitive one comes to examine this 

 o1)jeet and permits itself to be snared. 



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Dr. Cox stated that he had been requested by Mr. Ilenr}' 

 Bloomfleld to have the following facts published in regard to a 

 report which had gone the rounds of the daily papers in reference 

 to a statement said to have been made by Mr. Skuthorpe, to the 

 effect that half-caste natives had been seen by him amongst the 

 tribes of natives on the Herbert Eiver, in the North of Queensland. 

 He thought he could no do better than communicate those facts 

 through this Society. Mr. Bloomfield has been residing for 

 many months on the Port Constane Station, on the Cloncurry 

 Eiver, district of Bourke, Queensland, about 270 miles south of 

 Normantpn, on the Gulf of Carpentaria, and about 570 miles 

 west of Townsville. lie received the following information from 

 Mr. Thomas Cribb, who was with Mr. H. Skuthorpe on the 

 Herbert Eiver five years ago next Januar}^, and was with him 

 all the time Mr. Skuthorpe was out there. Mr. Cribb states that 

 ISEr. Skuthorpe had gone inside where Mr. Kirwin perished in 

 endeavouring to get to the Diamantina, and that there is not the 

 slightest foundation for the statement that half-caste natives had 

 been seen by them amongst the tribes of the Herbert. No 

 mention was ever made to Mr. Cribb of the presence of these 

 half-castes during the whole time^they resided together on the 

 Herbert. The names of the three tribes are Edgiree, AVanditta, 

 and Yalulunga. All these tribes are said to be circumcised, but 



