my start gun by slipping off my horse & walking behind the horses while if, & through rode towards the flock, all the birds are so accustomed to seeing the nature's on horse back that they pay little attention to a mounted man. But a man on foot will readily send the flock off into a flight; cranes were every where but the air I had killed until morning you all we needed for food at present and I did not shoot any more. Most of the cranes were in pairs picking in the meadow and very very tame. As our as chance a mayfly which was flying near it, the bird would fly to its most amusing ridiculous posture & started as it hopped & flapped about after the caterback or what I think they kept just out of reach. The Hungarian skylarks were fewer as they fluttered up from the ground pattering the air with song. At 6.30 we came over the hill & saw a beautiful little green pool ofual and near, its beside it inlier ! it made an ideal camp and we pitched our tents that all easy for half an hour. I just put a bait up trap in the willows & caught a nice of fish here to thank Capt. Baker very