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with General Wood# Left camp at 7 A# M«# moved east up Taraea River on 
left bank# Friendly Mar os had their property respected# but dozens 
of cottas (forts) were burned, and there was a good deal of shooting with 
little result# No casualties on our side except a bamboo wound of 
a soldier who fell in a ditch. About 10 o ‘clock we rested and sent a 
force farther up the left fork of Taraea River. I was slightly burned 
on leg by a falling bamboo cinder, but chiefly injured in pants and drawers. 
13433 Large Brown-breasted Kingfisher female adult, Taraea River. 
Our advance now firing on cotta upstream. Birds seem 
Orioles, 
Brown Rice-birds 
Naked- headed Starlings 
Caged Parraquet & Civet found in cottas. 
Caraboo-Birds 
Great Blue Herons (too tame to even fly as column passed near) 
No wild parrots were seen# 
Ring-necked Doves less common than on lower stream. 
A few large bronze-green backed Pigeons 
Hairy-baeks 
Ring- necked Towbee-tai 1 
Dendrocygna 
Wagtail, /shot one and saw many large brown-and-blue Kingfishers (No* 13333) 
also Kingfishers blue and white# 
Quail, on the marshes bordering the hills towards the head of Taraea River 
where were flocks of dark Ibises and enormous flocks of Carabou Birds. 
When we had followed the left fork of Taraea River to a point further 
than which horses could not be safely handled the General remained and 
rested while the greater part of the command was sent forward to destroy 
forts and houses. They saw four Moros entering the foothills who stopped 
to fight, but probably all escaped. I went out in an open marsh to shoot, 
and soon discovered tracks of fleeing Moros and at last the main trail 
of men, women, carabao and poMes, made by their beaten forces# Returning 
to camp I found that Col# Harbord and Capts. Darrah and Saltzman had brought 
me in a Civet (Viverra tagalunga) female adult, in a cage; also a huge 
wooden bowl# I at once showed General Wood the main Moro trail which 
