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[Dec 1953] WHITE-WINGED TRILLER (on nest). CHOUGH (nest 
only) and STRIATED PARDALOTE. Many others 
as well including a pair I never caught 
up with to identify. 
Then on through Goulbourn *[Golburn], we 
turned off to the left - south - to Canberra. 
By the road was a very large reedy swamp 
in which were both MUSK DUCK and HARDHEAD. 
Later we stopped again by L. George on 
which were at least 100 PELICANS, AVOCET 
and four pairs of WOOD DUCK. Just as 
we pulled up, on a small weedy dam on 
the other side of the road, I was just in 
time to see a Little Grebe cover its eggs with 
weed and slip off the nest. 
And so into Canberra - 216 miles: 
the longest to date. But a day of new 
country which was interesting despite the 
heat, and 14 new birds for the list. 
Dec 4^^ [1953] 
There had been nothing of 
(42) 
ornithological interest to report in the 
(134) 
preceding two days. We left the Canberra 
Hotel at 9.45 and out on the Yass road. 
