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food. Ravens were waiting for a chance to help them- 
selves or to thieve an egg from the liens’ nests. Yellow- 
tailed Thornhills and White-throated Warblers were 
among the garden trees and Welcome Swallows and 
Fairy Martins were circling after rising insects. Babblers 
were doing good work among the vegetable catching 
moths and grubs. Black-faced Cuckoo-Shrikes were giv- 
ing their gurgling call and flapping their wings on a 
dead limb at the top of a tall tree. 
After leaving home the track took me through open 
paddocks and on a swamp I saw a duck with ten young. 
Here too were several Spur-winged Plovers and a pair 
of While-faced Herons, 
At Taylor's mill $5 which is lined with Red Bottle- 
brush, She-oak and Silver Wattle, I saw large numbers 
of Double-bars and Red-browed Finches, several kinds 
of Honeyeaters, Speckled Warblers and Weebills. This 
gully marks the boundary between the open and the 
heavily timbered country. The big timber consists 
mostly of Eucalvpts and the underbrush is composed of 
several kinds of Wattle, Purple Tlovea, and (Irevillea 
armaria. This species of Grrvillca , which grows *o a 
height of four feet, is popular with honey-feeding birds 
as il bears a small bloom saturated with nectar. 
The (xiun-topped Ironbark trees were in heavy bloom 
and Honeyeaters of manv kinds and three species of Lori- # 
keets were feasting on the nectar. I was pleased to find 
the Noisy Friarbird and Little Friarbird here— the I 
former in large numbers and the latter in moderate 1 
numbers. 1 had not seen either of these species for I 
several weeks in the open country. The Rainbow-bird was 
quite plentiful here, feeding on insects that were attract- 
ed by the blossoms. These birds had been missing from 
the open country since 30th April. 
Along the foresl road Silver Wattle and Purple 
Hovea form an avenue. The wattle was beginning to 
bloom and the hovea was in heavy hud. In July and 
August this part of the road will lie a mass of purple 
And gold with a mixture of other flowering plants in- 
cluding the Flannel Flower. At the end of this avenue 
is the Lookout and across, the valley of the Fifteen Mile 
Creek are the Red Rocks. This broad cliff of sandstone 
about 300 feet in height is the nesting place of the 
Peregrine Falcon and the camping place of Spine-tailed 
