Juny 5 - 1874 June 5 Started off in my team after breakfast and tied my horse in Wellington's lawn, & Box. Shot during the forenoon 12 birds the best Coe Am. 3. Hd. Infusip! Six of the trees now for my mounted collection. Found a nest of D. austina 3 eggs; 1 of M. pecoris, several nest of Minus Car. One of the latter I took & laid on a stone wall intending to take it out as I drove by the place but when are home afterwards I stopped for it, I found two of the egg broken open apparently by some bird but as they contained large embryos. The contents was untouched. Coeypus Am is by far the commonest of the cockroos here this year. I am very much of the difference of their notes now. That of C. Am. is a long drawn rattth or sometimes a deep low like cooing its notes of one syllable coo, coo, coo, coo, eoo. The other has a softer coo of more less than two & frequently so away as four syllables, coo-coo-cro-cro; coo-coo-coo- coo, and this is I think its only note. Saw a Chacture break off a large twig i carry it in its bill a half mile or so when it (the bird) dropped into a chimney. Heard a single R. thirata this evening. The forest trees are still only scantily dotted with birds,