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from the various vantage points, and
collecting a few seeds of plants. Before
tea we went again to Echo Point where
again I saw and identified the Rock
Warbler, spending a quiet hour in
the bush.
30.11.53  We went straight after breakfast
to Narrow Neck where we walked south,
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for a mile or so onto the high land
south of Katoomba. On the way we 
came across a family of CHESTNUT-TAILED
HEATH-WRENS, the young tailless and
unable to fly. I had a magnificent
view of them and when I caught one 
young, had both parents ambling [guess]  in 
feigned injury around me. It was
hot and windless and we were
very much out of condition.
  At 4.0 pm. we went by 
car to Govets *[Govetts] Leap and viewed the
more forbidding mountains and
valleys to the east as the wind mounted
and the weather changed for the worse.