Bernhard Camp April 10, 1939. Fine all day - water has risen a little top of mountains in clouds - base of clouds at 7-700 m - about where country changes to mossy conditions - Van Arcken and I down lagoon and across Idenburg where I shot a few birds. The appearance of lagoon and river and marsh has changed little though water 6-9 feet lower than top of flood in March. Hornbills commonly flying over. White cockatoos, lories and pigeons seem scarcer than when I was here in March, and Versteegh says they were very much more common here in August when Eugenies were flowering in forest - (Versteegh says many species fertile in August and not now. A smooth - four mile current in Idenburg - few logs - crossed to other side - a flat plain one meter or more out of water - second growth forest - rather open - floor mud covered - fresh tracks of dog - fresh and old tracks of several pigs - different sizes - fresh and old tracks of big cassowary - tracks of a medium size crocodile - wallaby tracks - many fresh bandicoot tracks - many tracks rats - big and small - a few megapod and many Goura tracks - saw one Goura. Birds seemed fairly common - shot Rhip. rufiventris, Artamius, Xanthetes chrysogaster and Rhip leucothorix there, only went 200 yards or less inland - bare footed in mud - one foot deep in places though drying. This was along upper side of a lagoon of tall reed grass with a little open water here and there - frogs were croak- ing somewhere on other side (Brass had told me about them) and I sent a boy up a tree but he could see no open water. Returned and followed bank up stream - the same - a sharp approx 3 ft bank - with sharp forest (rather low rain forest) edge - this is eroding bank and current swifter there -