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[25.11.53] WHITE-THROATED WARBLER and LITTLE FRIAR-BIRD. 
I walked up the track a way and back 
again, when a SATIN BOWER-BIRD flashed 
off onto a sapling and back again. I 
watched and to my delight found it 
was at its Bower. I collected Joan 
and went back. We examined the 
bower - beautifully and precisely built with 
many blue odds and ends about it. 
That was good compensation for 
an otherwise extraordinarily dull day for 
birds in the National Park - bringing my 
total for the trip up to 105 - not too 
bad I suppose for very continuous travel, 
for the extra interest in plants and the 
main fact that birds are 'extras' on 
this holiday. 
26 - 27.11.53 Two days spent in Sydney - on 
(167) the latter we went up as far as St Ives 
and Epping to nurseries. Two more 
birds were added to the list - LITTLE 
WATTLE-BIRD and BULBUL. Tomorrow 
we are off again to the Blue Mountains. 
