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[14 th October 1948] in here and was rewarded by 
finding MUSK LORIKEETS - hundreds of them 
and very beautiful they are too - KOOKABURRA 
SACRED KINGFISHER, EASTERN ROSELLA, BROWN 
TREE CREEPER, STRIATED PARDALOTE. 
I then I rode over to a small, weed 
covered swamp but found only a 
family of MOUNTAIN DUCK. One half-grown 
young was near the centre of a paddock 
and being rigorously attacked by a Raven 
dodging and ducking for all it was worth 
as its tormentor's wings spread over it as 
"black as a tar barrel". 
I then rode back the way I had 
come home for lunch and wrote in 
a bird, abundant, but which had 
nevertheless so far escaped my note book - 
the MAGPIE-LARK. 
After lunch I went for a short 
walk up to the road and along it for a 
while, making my acquaintance with 
the birds of that country but seeing 
nothing new. 
