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[underlined] 6th November 1954 [/underlined]
  A few days after returning
[margin][circled]44[/circled][/margin]from our holiday I was completely bowled
over by a pneumonia and today 
I left on my week's solitary convalescence 
at the Richmond Hotel Portland.
  I left home straight after lunch
and made my first stop at the Black
Swamp, Stoneyford. I had seen some
WHITE IBIS [crossed out][?][/crossed out] perched in on tree  and it
was with faint hopes of their nesting
that I went to investigate. No luck
as far as that was concerned but with 
them, was one STRAW-NECKED IBIS and
two YELLOW-BILLED SPOONBILLS. Chattering
heavily was a SACRED KINGFISHER, and
over the SWAMP was a GOSHAWK and a 
SWAMP HARRIER. On the swamp itself
were only SWANS. SPUR-WINGED PLOVERS,
MOUNTAIN DUCK and EASTERN SWAMPHEN.
  The next visit was to L.[ake] 
Purrumbeet *[Purrumbete] on the advise of Bruce Amos
who had camped there last February