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open forest produced birds typical of it - 
WHITE-BROWED BABBLER, [BROWN TREE-CREEPER]
with nest. COLLARED SPARROWHWAK and
WHITE-WINGED TRILLER. The roads we
were on were made by the Forests
COMMISSION and were not tourist's
roads as we had thought. Our
map was entirely useless and we
kept on going south and bearing
to the right in an effort to get out
of the valley by a gap near the
Chimneys. We saw at this (southern)
end of the valley a PALLID CUCKOO. We
came to a place on the road where a
tree had fallen across and we had
to turn back and take the previous
fork to the left. That road would
however, we think, taken us to the
Chimney's Gap.
  The road deteriorated and
took a course bearing to the east
and was obviously heading for the
Mirranatwa Gap. Suddenly fences,