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[4.12.48] around the verandah, RESTLESS FLYCATCHER, 
WHITE-PLUMED HONEYEATER, SWALLOWS (a pair were 
exploring the sitting-room for a nesting site!) 
RED WATTLE-BIRD and PALLID CUCKOO. 
I very soon changed and 
went off and first visited the 
plantation where Mr Neil [guess] Ramsay had shown 
me the SNIPE (29.9.47) and they were still 
there though in much fewer numbers. There 
was a SILVER GULL on the nearby dam - 
that's all. But on the Plains were 
MAGPIES, RAVENS, MAGPIE-LARKS, STARLING, WILLIE- 
WAGTAILS, SKYLARKS, PIPITS, a BROWN HAWK 
and many YELLOW-TAILED THORNBILLS. I then 
moved across to the large dam where I 
had last been on that blazing hot day 
(25.1.48) A ploughed field by which I 
passed was covered with SPUR-WINGED 
PLOVER, reminding me strongly of a 
certain ploughed field near Stonebridge 
which "hid" hundreds of Lapwings. 
First sight of the dam showed 
little but a WHITE-FACED HERON but on 
