48 [page number] 
[5.12.48] On the way in the car I passed close 
to a flock of BANDED PLOVER. Over the 
swamp as I approached flew a SWAMP 
HARRIER. I walked out to the now 
abandoned BROLGA'S nest (a much drier 
trip than previously) which looked forlorn 
and untidy. I wandered round 
and listened that SANDPIPER (sp?), FAIRY 
MARTIN, STRIATED FIELD-WREN and WHITE- 
FRONTED CHAT. A quail got up at 
every feet and appeared to be a STUBBLE 
QUAIL. From where it rose was a 
grass-lined nest contain four stone-coloured 
eggs finely speckled with olive-brown to 
give a pepper + salt appearance, with no 
zoning [guess]. This does not fit the description 
of the Stubble Quail (partic. in numbers) and 
it may be the Brown or Swamp Quail. 
The two last birds noted round the 
homestead were the BLACK-FACED CUCKOO-SHRIKE 
and a GOSHAWK. 
Not much was done in the 
way of birds, for the weather was windy, 
