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a rustling noise among the light branches of the timber, you 

 will in all probability be safe to assign the cause to the 

 Grey Shrike-Thrush, as the effect is so different to that 

 caused by small birds in the scrubby creek land. It is 



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Fig. 22. Grey Shrike-Thrush and Nest. One-fourth natural size. 



heavy-footed and seems careless. The size and awkwardness 

 appear out of place amongst the quiet of the matted vegeta- 

 tion of a humid Gippsland gully. 



I once heard a naturalist say he hunted high and low for 

 small worms and insects in the gullies near Walhalla and 



