July 20, 1935 I left Orange after breakfast via shortly before 9:00 and got to Urra about one. On the way down bird songs were quite noticeable or else it so struck me was so thenown. Black & white warblers were particular noticeable. Brownscrafts (c) were common and agreetively as I could not hit them, th one that I did hit went down in the tall grass so that it was impossi to find it. Carols were also quite noticeable especially near scrub bordering to longpa. I climbed over the hill instead of going through the scrub on the unfinished part just after the river, and while crossing a grass flat I flushed a quail unfortunately he flushed behind me and by the time I turned around he was sitting in the grass although I rushed to try get it failed to flush him or again. I read time most all afternoon except for a little while around 4:00 when a few old women brought some canna tayo & can. At sun set I went down to the point of the ridge back from Urra where I smoked a cigar while watching clouds as mist drifted up the valley, the air was quite clear that there haze and the drifting clouds gave a ever changing pictor of the steeply ridged valley. The Vanepha valley floor is quite wide 13 km or more wide & narrowing down below. Into this project an immense number of ridges; which on the Orange or western side are quite level, with edges coming down slightly to the river. While the gorge of Eastern has a number of greater proportion of these ridges are longer and have apparently been sheared off into flat tables so to speak. On both sides the banks of the river is steeply covered with scrably trees & shrubs mostly secondary; above this there is a wide area of glass where there are patches of secondery forest in the gullies and above this the heavy forest. I had a somewhat small amount of fresh pake dry bread and corn which while eating I wondered what would be said to a n.y. hotel proprietor if he dared to serve so tough an ear. Anyway throughout it seemed and I had fears for the morrow.