and they would get a different rider. Sometimes I am able to sit in front of my own camp fire and have to worry about “making good” it takes all the pleasure out of life where information which is not carried does me into wasting time & money! At 9 A. M. we started back with heavy hearts & angry at B’s - at the spot when we had opportunity. On the way I shot a mallard female drake thrushers. These birds are breeding here as are the ruby shell- drakes, far more many of the latter in pairs - they are very tame. Also a good many swan geese in flocks but they are probably not breeding. Dismall cranes are everywhere in pairs. Yesterday we watched two cranes across the river walking about feeding. At last one of them probably the female, quietly settled down, undoubtedly upon her eggs while the male continued walking about not far away. Tap wings are breeding and often when crossing at 7½ march the pretty birds flying about just overhead in shady woods suggests that their eggs must be near by.