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28.6.47.    On the 28th June 1947 The Orion arrived
[margin] 14 [circled] [/margin] at Fremantle and we had our first sight of
 Australia and its birds. SILVER GULLS abounded in
 the harbour, their silver-grey backs and red bills
 being well remembered. I was astonished at the
 number of SKUAS there were in the harbour. They
 were feeding on the water or flying round the
 ship with the gulls but were never seen to
 harry the latter. Alexander (Birds of the Ocean
 p.p. [pages] 207, 208) gives two species â€“ the Southern Skua
 and the dark Skua (Catharacta antarctica and C.
 lonnbergi) both with a distribution including
 Fremantle. They appear to be Inseparable at
 sea. Cayley (p[age] 282) recognises only C. lonnbergi
 which he calls the Dark Southern Skua!
   Though we saw many TURTLE DOVES on
 the bus into Perth our first Australian land
 bird was in the company of Dr. DL Serventy
 outside the W.A. Museum â€“ a WILLIE WAGTAIL.
 More came in the afternoon with a visit to
 Kings Park â€“ [crossed out]YELLOW[/crossed out] RED WATTLE-BIRD, WESTERN MAGPIE (whose
 call was delightful to hear again and which
 both Joan and Macdonald immediately rendered [guess]
 ''ogley - ogley''), WESTERN SPINEBILL, SWALLOW, FAIRY MARTIN
 and a very large flock of SILVER-EYES. I had


