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heard on every side. One stood quite still, not more than ten

yards from our boat, and gave me an excellent view through my

field glasses.


My companion and an assistant from the Perth Zoo set the

long nets we had brought with us, in the water round the clumps

of reeds, and then we proceeded to set some wire rat-traps baited

with pieces of cray-fish for the fine carnivorous Yellow-bellied

Water Rat which is quite common in the banks of most of the

lakes and rivers of Australia. Having done this we rowed back

to the lauding place, where we met Mr. E. A. Le Souef and pro¬

ceeded to discuss our supper in the boatman’s shanty, surrounded

on all sides by the chirping and booming of frogs innumerable,

while the mosquitoes gave us 110 peace. After supper we rowed

by moonlight to inspect the nets before turning in, but nothing

had been caught. We slept soundly that night, curled up in our

rugs on the sandy margin of the lake.


Early the next morning we rose, made some tea in a billy¬

can and then proceeded to inspect our nets. We were not alto¬

gether unsuccessful, capturing two Pied Cormorants (Phalacro

corax hypoleucus ) and two Musk Ducks, as well as a Yellow-

bellied Water Rat.


As we rowed amongst the reeds a Black Swan rose from

the water quite close to us, with loud flappings of its pinions

on the water. Ducks rose from all around ns, while a White¬

winged Butcher-bird piped its flute-like notes from a branch

lead gum tree by the water’s edge, waiting for his breakfast

■ n up in the form of some unsuspecting White-eye or other


bird.


(To be continued).



NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS, ETC.


1 TO ATTRACT AND PROTECT WIED BIRDS.*


Such is the title of a small book which has been widely

ited in Germany and, within a few weeks, will be published


How to Attract and Protect Wild Birds, by Martin Hiksemann, translated by

Buchhein, with an Introduction by Her Grace the Duchess of Bedford,

.oiidon : Witherbv & Co,, 326, High Holborn. Price 1/6,



