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the direc# ion of the old nesting aS The viva was sitting 
just. above a partly built nest,about a hundred, feet from ‘the 
ground ; the nest was in exactly the same place, 28 the one Sek 
dj down a couple of fair sized erceks that run into the Neville ee 
saw | here a couple of years ago;1 could not tell if ee was a 
| fresh one or not. After breakfast 1 sot out to work up ent 
, “near the camp. Fresh tracks of the Cassowary,(Ceaustralis) 
7 eee: go out along a track for a couple of miles to 
working through all the. good areas of sorub ond up 
were: seen along both reeks, scareh all round through the scrub 
- where the tracks” were most numerous , but did not Bee anny sign 
of a nest. Rifle birds and Cat birds, were fairly plentifua on 
both erecks; old nests of the latter were seen dn anongst the 
leaves of sorb Tandanus. Searcely any or ‘aie sualler tander 
were seen; the serub was vey ry thick and ary, 1. supplige the 20 se 
 Inade- in cutting my way chrougi and the crackling: of dend lee? 
and twigs underfoot, would frighten nost of them anay. 
gould see ‘them. Get bage: to camp about mid-day s 
Bee of orecks.  Waais of the Sassowary we: 
