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[15 th October 1948] sooty black silently and ominously 
diving. DUSKY MOORHEN were swimming about 
in the reeds and so this swamp had 
the three common water birds (with Coot and 
Eastern Swamphen). A short circuit into the 
scrub found nothing of interest but a 
LITTLE GREBE on a weed strewn pond. 
After lunch I set off and did 
a large circuit of the paddock embracing the 
swamp and going through both open 
forest and scrub. My first find was 
a BLUE-FACED HONEYEATER - a beautiful bird 
with which I was very pleased. Shortly after, 
while skirting the scrub, five EMUS were seen 
running swiftly over the heath away from 
me. A few feathers I had previously seen 
on the barbed wire which had prepared 
me for their presence. They were smaller 
than I had imagined. 
Resting by the swamp (where at least 
two Yellow-billed Spoonbill were nesting, and I 
expect some Little Pied Cormorants) an EASTERN 
SHRIKE-TIT appeared in a gum by me. I am 
