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[March 5th 1954]
CAPPED SITELLA (probably) . MISTLETOE-BIRD. 
BROWN-HEADED HONEYEATER. FUSCOUS HONEYEATER,
and YELLOW-TUFTED HONEYEATER
[margin][circled]67[/circled][/margin] March 7th - was a most magnificent 
bird day - the outstanding one for 
the whole season's birding. We went 
up the highway on the Horsham route 
and stopped first at a large swamp 
on the right of the road, just on the 
edge of the rising ground to the 
east. There was not as much there 
as we had hoped - we came across 
a flock of CHOUGHS and heard the 
LITTLE GRASS-BIRD. We also came 
across a tortoise, the first native tortoise 
I had ever seen. When Max 
poked it, it raised its backside and 
squirted him fair and square with 
a vilely smelling excretion which 
made me hoot with mirth. For the 
rest of the day I kept to windward 
of Max.
  We moved on from there to