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[12.3.49] WATTLE-BIRDS, BROWN TREE-CREEPERS, LITTLE (?) LORIKEETS 
KOOKABURRAS in the red-gums along the banks. 
Also there were SWALLOWS and FAIRY MARTINS. 
On the dam there was nothing more than a 
pair of Black Duck, Little Pied Cormorants and 
Black-fronted Dotterels on the fringes. On the 
further side on a small stretch of the 
bank little more than 200 yards in length 
was a flock of GREY-CROWNED BABBLERS 
where they had been known to frequent 
for the past ten years. 
We then set off into what is 
known as the "wood," a patch of saplings 
and scrub which has become known 
to the school ornithologist (which has bo) as 
one of those rare localities where many 
species can always be found within 
a small area. This time it did not 
let us down. A list of those I added 
to my note-book in that hour are - 
GREY FANTAIL, STRIATED PARDALOTE, SPECKLED WARBLER, 
DUSKY WOOD-SWALLOW, RAINBOW-BIRDS (many of them 
sitting on prominent boughs shaking the wing 
