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13 th October 1948 Having been put off work for another 
(42) week we decided to adopt the very bright 
suggestion and go and stay the rest of the 
week with Walter and Marion Hopkins at 
Langkoop near the South Australian Boundary. So 
at 10 o'clock we set off (an hour late) in 
teeming rain which continued until we 
were the other side of Camperdown. There 
in the plantations were NOISY MINERS and 
EASTERN ROSELLAS. 
At Mt Emu Creek we turned up 
through Noorat to Mortlake and from there 
out onto the Hamilton road. On the plains 
were WHITE-FRONTED HERONS, a GOSHAWK, FAIRY MARTIN 
MAGPIE LARK, SWALLOWS, PIPITS, MAGPIES, SKYLARKS 
and GOLDFINCHES. At Hexham was a 
flock of RED-BACKED PARROTS which were delightful 
to see again. Also some white cockatoos 
which I was fortunately suspicious of, looked 
twice and found them to be CORELLAS. They 
were in small parties as well as one flock 
of five [guess] so -comparatively tame I 
was to see many more of them before the day 
