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[26.10.1947] gully I made a circle back to the car through scrub 
where a RESTLESS FLYCATCHER flew uttering a sharp 
grating note to proclaim its identity, and a party of 
RED BROWED FINCHES flew over, their mournful note proclaiming 
theirs. Back at the car a BLACKBIRD flew, startled, out 
of a bush, clacking loudly and discordantly. A BLACK- 
FACED CUCKOO-SHRIKE sat on the limb of a dead tree 
grating harshly. RUFOUS BRISTLE-BIRDS were heard. 
On the way back EASTERN ROSELLAS were seen 
in the patch of open forest while both PIPITS and 
SKYLARKS flew by the road as it ran between paddocks. 
Two flocks of BANDED PLOVERS on each side of the road 
fed with little runs in the grass. Passing Ball's Dam 
I noticed a flock of 26 [guess] SPUR-WINGED PLOVERS, SWANS, 
HERONS, EASTERN SWAMP-HENS and a pair of MOUNTAIN 
DUCK. A single DABCHICK swam on the surface of 
a small dam in a paddock, but when I got 
out to investigate it disappeared completely and 
apparently for good. 
15.11.47 We took tea out to Yeodene, including Michael, three 
(37) and a half weeks old. We went up the hill just 
beyond Culliamurra [guess] drawing the car in just where 
the bush starts after the valley clearing. 
In Balls* [Ball's] Dam on the way we saw the 
EASTERN MOORHENS which had left the bank for the 
