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[28.12.47] seen to be the WHITE-EARED HONEYEATER which was 
excessively common. Shortly I disturbed a flock 
of SULPHUR-CRESTED COCKATOOS which when it caught 
sight of me started the most extraordinary 
din imaginable. Several birds flew round me 
[photo] and settled in the 
trees in a ring 
about me setting up 
a continual ear- 
splitting cacophany* [cacophony]. 
After about half 
an hour they departed 
leaving an almost 
uncanny silence upon the bush which was 
in reality filled with bird-song. Next I came 
upon the nest of a RED-TIPPED PARDALOTE some 
twenty-five feet up in a gum, a small smooth 
round hole in the [photo] 
main trunk of 
a gum. I spent 
forty minutes timing 
the visits of the 
parents which were 
evidently feeding 
young. Actually the 
