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[15.10.52] in that stretch the RUFOUS BRISTLE-BIRD, BLACK-FRONTED 
DOTTEREL and SINGING HONEYEATER. 
It was a grey day with a high 
N-W wind. We had lunch in the car as the 
first drops of rain fell, which they continued to 
do for nearly the whole of the rest of the day. 
We moved eastwards through Princetown to 
Lower Gellibrand - FAIRY MARTIN, BLACKBIRD, WEDGE- 
TAILED EAGLE and RED-BROWED FINCH. We turned 
off the Lower Gellibrand road, putting on a little 
speed for the Max again was feeling ill. We 
pitched a camp in an old gravel pit, well up 
and off the road between Devondale and 
Chappie Vale. Max went straight to sleep and 
I wandered for a while in light rain on the 
river flats, putting up a BLACK DUCK. We had 
a good big evening meal, during which a 
SCARLET ROBIN sang nearby. In the evening, 
while Max went down on to the flats, I walked 
up onto the heathland but all was quiet 
and silent. Max saw a YELLOW ROBIN, and as 
we are now writing, under a cold rainless sky, a 
BOOBOOKOWLis calling. 
