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Dec 1st 1953.   We left the hotel at 9.15,
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turning back to the east, and, having picked
up our plants at the nursery, were out of
the Blue Mountains by 10.30 and it was
getting hot. We turned south after Penrith
and travelled *[traveled] to the Hume Highway at
Narella *[Narellan], just north of Campden *[Camden]. It was
the first them we had been in the unpopulated
plains west of the divide â”€ typical N[ew] S[outh] W[ales].
landscapes â”€ undulating with tall gums
scattered in the paddocks, rivers lined
with trees, much Callitris â”€ all red soil
and shimmering. In this stretch I saw
the RED-BACKED PARROT and SPOTTED PARDALOTE.
   We went through Bowral and
Mittagong â”€ and had our lunch in
a dry piece of scrub, in the shade of a
pine. A RUFOUS WHISTLER was singing in
the ti-tree behind us and it was only he[re] [guess]
that we saw the first SKYLARK. Not long
after lunch I stopped at one of those spots
that is full of birds - and to my list I 
added BROWN TREE-CREEPER, DIAMOND FIRETAIL