70 [page number] 
Dec 1953. We left the hotel at 9.15, 
(60) turning back to the east, and, having picked 
(124) up our plants at the nursery, were out of 
the Blue Mountains by 10.30 and it was 
getting hot. We turned south after Penrith 
and travelled to the Hume Highway at 
Narella *[Narellan], just north of Campden *[Camden]. It was 
the first them we had been in the unpopulated 
plains west of the divide - typical N.S.W. [New South Wales], 
landscapes - undulating with tall gums 
scattered in the paddocks, rivers lined 
with trees, much Callitris - all red soil 
and shimmering. In this stretch I saw 
the RED-BACKED PARROT and SPOTTED PARDALOTE. 
We went through Bowral and 
Mittagong - and had our lunch in 
a dry piece of scrub, in the shade of a 
pine. A RUFOUS WHISTLER was singing in 
the ti-tree behind us and it was only he[re] [guess] 
that we saw the first SKYLARK. Not long 
after lunch I stopped at one of those spots 
that is full of birds - and to my list I 
added BROWN TREE-CREEPER, DIAMOND FIRETAIL 
