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[9.7.47] prey and even chasing them when a Cormorant 
flew off to escape the pestering. The Gulls were 
also fluttering onto the water and feeding off it. 
The flock then split in two, the larger drifting 
on with the wind, the other returning into 
the wind feeding all the time and continually 
mobbed by the GULLS: LITTLE PIED CORMORANTS were also seen. 
9.7.47 Just before leaving Joan I went for a 
(29) walk round Spring St and Exhibition Gardens 
and I made the following list. STARLING, SPARROW 
INDIAN MYNAH, TURTLE-DOVE, BLACKBIRD, THRUSH, 
GOLDFINCH and GREEN-FINCH (heard only); MAGPIE-LARK 
MAGPIE, SCARLET ROBIN and WREN. Twelve birds 
of which two-thirds are introduced ! ! 
On the trip to Colac were seen SWANS by 
the Old Swamp Rd out of Melbourne MAGPIES, CROWS 
and SWALLOWS, WILLIE-WAGTAILS were very common 
by the young plantations next to the road. Also 
PLOVERS were seen in paddocks by water though 
whether Banded or Spur-winged I could not tell. 
We had lunch on the foreshore at Corio when 
we saw on the Lagoon SILVER GULLS, PACIFIC GULLS, LARGE 
and LITTLE PIED CORMORANT, LARGE PIED CORMORANT, HERON 
and CRESTED TERN. A SKYLARK was singing and 
YELLOW-TAILED THORNBILLS were in the Cypruses as 
