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[Dec. 1st 1953]
WHITE-WINGED TRILLER (on nest). CHOUGH (nest
only) and STRIATED PARDALOTE. Many others
as well including a pair I never caught
up with to identify.
   Then on through Goulbourn *[Golburn], we
turned off to the left - south - to Canberra.
By the road was a very large reedy swamp
in which were both MUSK DUCK and HARDHEAD.
Later we stopped again by L[ake] George on
which were at least 100 PELICANS, AVOCET
and four pairs of WOOD DUCK. Just as
we pulled up, on a small weedy dam on
the other side of the road, I was just in
time to see a Little Grebe cover its eggs with
weed and slip off the nest.
   And so into Canberra - 216 miles:
the longest to date. But a day of new
country which was interesting despite the
heat, and 14 new birds for the list.
Dec[ember] 4th.  There had been nothing of
ornithological interest to report in the
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preceding two days. We left the Canberra
Hotel at 9.45 and out on the Yass road.