wean hae x ne 
the pird. ‘After lunch, Ned and I take scrub knives and axes, to 
the | serud: 
boulders to make it reasonably ka ‘There is very “good, Seed 
for the horses on ‘this pocket ;we may have to run them back to. 
this for a few: days yas the smaller pockets nearer the edge of. 
the big. “sorub, are usually poorly grassed, For about two adles 
the: road again winds upwards; through thickly ‘timbered forest 
_— pokets,ara narrow belts of scrub fringing the ‘small (orecks. 
Reach « a cauping Place about | uid-day,in a small pocket a mile 
ge hey Bie. edge. of the big serub, Unload and fix up a ‘temporary 
camp. Hear the same bird-call, that I heard when passing thro- 
ugh here, a couple of years ago;it is a Loud /Clear, coupping 
whistle ,of three to four seconds duration; gould not locate — 
clear the track through the big serub. Do about taree miles of 
it; ;had- to cut. it afresh in several places ,where big trees hed Se 
fallen along and across ‘it. Loyer vines were the greatest of 
io st uisances, they were down every few yards; there was sccapeg 
and blood flowing, ainost from ‘the start jone. would nake a a ae aes 
at a hooked streamer and another unseen,Would take’ its toll, of 
em skin and flesh, on the way back to caup, three lots of ‘the Rede ois 
headed Parrots, (C. ‘persona tus were heard in ‘different Places ae Mi ei 
oe oay: locate | one birds male ; it was on the 
