"May" Indica has occasionally the exact character of Saurora as I shot one to day in the act of making it; they latter a number of other notes more of which are as yet familiar to me, Pardalotus is quite familiar. Indica sometimes does not I think sing with so much vigor as in May. Sicus pubescens & Villona exhibit no peculiar features. May 1 Alternately cloudy & clear. Off after breakfast as usual & took 20 birds the best Myr. mutatus 8, Hc. versicolor 4, Saurora 8, Thy. Indica 7 Cotyph. seripennis 3 & 2 Cardinals 3, L.brevis 2-10. The arrivals noted were Vireo gilvus 6, Dolichopus my., I batmanov ov. oren, Pyronoma pulchra 8, Hydanulus Indica 2, Sc. sirus 8, Myr. mutatus 8, D. Blackburnia 8, Cotyph. seripennis 3 &c. Myr. cretatus 8, Jol. versicolor 2. Struck down the track this morning I found the country much better for collecting than any I have before seen. Birds are very silent and go much in flocks as in fact Sparrows warbling petunia &c. picking up the caterin. I was much surprised at finding two broods of young Thy. Indica able to fly; one brood got up all together in an open pasture like a flock of quail & I made an easy double shot on