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prey and even chasing them when a Cormorant 
flew off to escape the pestering. The Gulls were 
also fluttering onto the water and feeding off it.  
The flock then split in two, the larger drifting 
on with the wind, the other returning into  
the wind feeding all the time and continually 
mobbed by the GULLS: LITTLE PIED CORMORANTS were also seen.
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  Just before leaving Joan I went for a 
walk round Spring St[reet] and Exhibition Gardens
 and I made the following list. STARLING, SPARROW
 INDIAN MYNAH, TURTLE-DOVE, BLACKBIRD, THRUSH,
 GOLDFINCH and GREEN-FINCH (heard only); MAGPIE-LARK
 MAGPIE, SCARLET ROBIN and WREN. Twelve birds
 of which two-thirds are introduced!!
  On the trip to Colac were seen SWANS by
 the Old Swamp R[oa]d out of Melbourne MAGPIES, CROWS
 and SWALLOWS, WILLIE-WAGTAILS were very common
 by the young plantations next to the road. Also
 PLOVERS were seen in paddocks by water though
 whether Banded or Spur-winged I could not tell.
   We had lunch on the foreshore at Corio when
 we saw on the Lagoon SILVER GULLS, PACIFIC GULLS, LARGE
 and LITTLE PIED CORMORANT, LARGE PIED CORMORANT, HERON
 and CRESTED TERN. A SKYLARK was singing and
 YELLOW-TAILED THORNBILLS were in the Cypruses as