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[12.6.48]
better to see the red under the throat and tail. I
then flushed a pair of pigeons which at first I
thought were parrots so brightly coloured were
they. They had a bright yellow eyebrow but
in other respects they could be identified as
RED-CROWNED PIGEONS. As these displace the
 Rose-crowned Pigeon geographically (the later
 having the yellow eyebrow). I think I will
 find when I get a better description of the
 former they will have the yellow eye-brow.
   After breakfast Joan and I set out
for the western gully and could not see or
hear a thing. We were caught in heavy
rain storm and were feeling a bit damped. 
When however the storm cleaned the bush
burst into song and I was kept busy. A 
GREY FANTAIL was singing and besides a Leaden
Flycatcher was a SPECTACLED FLYCATCHER, a
beautiful bird, a WHITE-EARED FLYCATCHER
looking rather like a Mudlark in miniature, a
female RUFOUS WHISTLER and a VARIED TRILLER,
another beautiful bird with the same colour
scheme as the two black +[and] rufous flycatchers.
  When I returned, very wet, Joan who
had gone on home earlier told me that