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[28.12.47]
seen to be the WHITE-EARED HONEYEATER which was
excessively common. Shortly I disturbed a flock
of SULPHUR-CRESTED COCKATOOS which when it caught
sight of me started the most extraordinary
din imaginable. Several birds flew round me
[photo] and settled in the
trees in a ring
about me setting up
a continual ear-
splitting cacophany* [cacophony].
After about half
an hour they departed
leaving an almost
uncanny silence upon the bush which was
in reality filled with bird-song. Next I came 
upon the nest of a RED-TIPPED PARDALOTE some
twenty-five feet up in a gum, a small smooth
round hole in the [photo]
main trunk of
a gum. I spent 
forty minutes timing
the visits of the
parents which were 
evidently feeding
young. Actually the