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hollow’ with green leaves; but, as there was a hole in the bottom, 
the only result was a considerable heap of leaves on the ground 
at the foot of the stump. I blocked the hole so that their labours 
would no longer be in vain. A Crested Bronzew’ing was sitting 
on her frail nest in a bunch of Mistletoe. 
An early start from this camp on a beautifully fresh sunny 
morning soon brought us, through Mulga, Whitewood and Bul¬ 
lock-bush, to No. 3 bore, about which we found a flock of 150 
Emus feeding on the green herbage. A fine Eremophila (E. 
Bowmani ), with glaucous foliage and lovely lavender flowers, 
was much admired by the party. Our road now took 
us through a scrub of Acacia ligulata on sandy ground, with 
nearly all depressions still holding water. This was succeeded 
by thick Mulga and Bullock-bush scrub for a long way. Emus 
were plentiful and mostly in pairs. The herbage had been good 
all the way, and the many wild flowers coloured the ground 
yellow, lavender or white, according to the prevalence of different 
plants. We pulled up at Arosino late in the afternoon, and found 
that we had only 25 miles more to travel before we should reach 
the Paroo at Wanaaring. This town consists mostly of empty 
houses and ruins. The Paroo had lately been in flood, but was 
then just trickling between a series of lagoons. It was bordered 
with Red-gums (Eucalyptus rostrata ), Black Box (E. bicolor ), 
Yapunyah (E. ochrophloia ), and Bimble-box (E. poptilifolia ), 
with the Swamp Acacia (A. stenophylla) and Lignum (Muehlcn - 
beckia cunninghami ). Along the banks around the town was a 
low scrub of Dodonoea viscosa and Olcaria pimeleoides — the 
latter gloriously in flower. The Yapunyahs were in blossom, 
and attracted numbers of honey-eating birds. 
We left late on the 22nd August, taking the road which wended 
its way northwards parallel with the Paroo, through sandy scrub 
country or across fiats subject to inundation from the river. We 
noted Pied and Black Honeyeaters, Pallid Cuckoos, Red-capped 
Robins, and Jacky Winters. At forty miles we stopped at Willara 
Station for lunch. After leaving Willara the road crossed the 
Paroo, but kept along it till we stopped at Talyalye to effect 
repairs to our radiator. Whilst our driver was doing this we 
walked on and noted the following birds: Grey Falcon, Brown 
Hawk, Whistling Eagle, Short-billed Crows, Galahs, Ringnecks, 
Blue Bonnets (Psephotus heematonotus xanthorrJious ), Crested 
Pigeons, Red-capped Robins, Singing, White-plumed and Black 
Honeyeaters. Dr. Chenery found in a charred Mulga stump a 
nest of the Chestnut-backed Thornhill (Acdnthiza uropygialis) ; 
it contained three eggs. These birds were common in the scrubs. 
Several Whitefaces of the common species (Aphelocephala 
leucopsis) were also seen. The car overtook us, and we went on, 
till towards evening we passed through a natural avenue of Box 
Trees, then a scrub of Turpentine (Eremophila sturli) and 
Dodorura viscosa before entering Hungerford — the border town. 
