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296 anchor their wagons to moorings unclear firmly into the ground, the unclear their cattle and themselves on the lea side. These wind-showers? on the Plains are not to bad for man as for beast, for the nostrils, mouths, & eye of the shores & bullocks suffer much from the sharp sand. Three species of the Crow tribe are I found common by the roadside in the Mountains in Winter. The Blue jay which is seen frequently in flock; the Magpie which is marked very similarly to our own, it appears however like a somewhat larger bird, & to have a larger tail; & the Raven. In the summer, as there is then an inexhaustible supply of unclear of different lands in the Valley, & on the hill side, I sd expect to see a great variety of birds.