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[12.6.48] better to see the red under the throat and tail. I 
then flushed a pair of pigeons which at first I 
thought were parrots so brightly coloured were 
they. They had a bright yellow eyebrow but 
in other respects they could be identified as 
RED-CROWNED PIGEONS. As these displace the 
Rose-crowned Pigeon geographically (the later 
having the yellow eyebrow). I think I will 
find when I get a better description of the 
former they will have the yellow eye-brow. 
After breakfast Joan and I set out 
for the western gully and could not see or 
hear a thing. We were caught in heavy 
rain storm and were feeling a bit damped. 
When however the storm cleaned the bush 
burst into song and I was kept busy. A 
GREY FANTAIL was singing and besides a Leaden 
Flycatcher was a SPECTACLED FLYCATCHER, a 
beautiful bird, a WHITE-EARED FLYCATCHER 
looking rather like a Mudlark in miniature, a 
female RUFOUS WHISTLER and a VARIED TRILLER, 
another beautiful bird with the same colour 
scheme as the two black + rufous flycatchers. 
When I returned, very wet, Joan who 
had gone on home earlier told me that 
