ori Dy 
(C,orientalis) were also visited, no luck. Go over to the Coen 
river and follow tt dow. The two Mountain Magpios nests noted — 
, vuilding, 11/10/22; appeared to be findshed, elimb both,no eggs, — 
‘he bird was eiteine on the nest noted building, 19/9/2245 this | 
nest is about eighty feet from “he ground at the end ofa long 
thin limb of a Paperbark; I had my doubts about being able to 
get the eges, #0 @id not climb it, Five other nesting ‘Places : | 
were looked at here, but the birds do not appear to ve building 
about any of them. Return to town, get back about 2pm, atter 
“lunch I hunt yound for sone suitable timber, to make @ tox to 
pack the three skins of loun tein Magpies, and the Bet of Lacles, ; 
/ (Usaudax) eggs, that lr, Andersen got for me, Managed to get me 
enough timber, 80 make a box and pack the specimens. the iat 7 
: arrived Up. to time; two letters fvom lr, HL White, Cet my mad oh 
ready for the post. 
‘ibang ib. - Bill brings the horses in carly, the pores 
are nearly choaled, 80 deoide to give ‘them another days ‘spell, 
e There is. a couple of men in town to-day’, for neil, whom T went | s 
ae to see; Jerry ‘Doda, from Attack oreek way; and Pred, Jhonson, c | 
from Hlosidy ke WOE » ‘south east end of ‘the Rocky ‘gorub. See te 
is iat he dane lately been seross the range: to the east coast and ae 
Sebi He says there is fairly good seed near his caup on Atteok 
ticge apa there is no goo cerecnaengn a reas of it vg a 
ta ae aE gM ect ie 
