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[14^^ September swamp at Cororooke were many SWANS, LITTLE 
1948] PIED CORMORANTS and a pair of GULL-BILLED TERNS 
flying over the dairy + swamp country. At 
BALINTORE were GOLDFINCHES, SKYLARKS and 
SPARROWS while on the swamp which now 
contained water were, besides SWANS, many 
BLACK DUCK and COMMON SANDPIPERS - a 
visitor it was good to see. As we were 
driving away a PALLID CUCKOO flew 
across the road. At the west corner of 
the Lake were EASTERN SWAMPHEN (swampy 
ground a few hundred yards away) and 
COOT, again in large flocks on the water. 
17^^ September We repeated the same route as before. 
(45) This time I was accompanied only by Taylor 
and the day was grey but not too cold 
The open forest of the first part of the run 
produced much the same birds - KOOKABURRA 
NOISY MINER MAGPIE, MAGPIE-LARK, STARLING, NATIVE 
THRUSH, WHITE-BROWED SCRUB-WREN (scuttled in front of 
the car), BLACK-FACED CUCKOO-SHRIKE, SWALLOW WHITE-FACED 
HERON, YELLOW-TAILED THORN BILL and EASTERN 
ROSELLAS. At Swan Marsh we picked up a 
few more birds - RAVENS, SWANS, SILVER GULLS, 
WILLIE WAGTAIL and MOUNTAIN DUCK. We had 
