66 [page number]

[16.11.47]
[photo]
nest of a BLACK-FACED
CUCKOO-SHRIKE. We    
returned and had 
some breakfast. The 
camp was in a 
clearing and the 
birds immediately 
obviously were WILLIE 
WAGTAILS, flitting round and singing. The boys 
had been looking for a nest and later in the 
day I found the beginnings of a nest on a 
horizontal gum bough some 4 f[ee]t from the ground. 
It had not yet been firmly bound to the 
bough and looked most unstable as the bird 
stood on it, working fresh material into it. 
WHITE-PLUMED HONEYEATERS abounded in large 
numbers, being definitely the dominant bird of 
their family. I saw one nest later - a thin 
cup shaped structure of fine grasses slung amongst 
the foliage on the periphery of a young gum. 
Many too I found lying on the ground. NATIVE 
THRUSHES were singing all about as also were BLUE 
WRENS at a nest of which I later watched [crossed out] PONDER [/crossed out] 
Ponder setting up his camera. A thin dome-shaped