. A record of the expedition to Eyre's Peninsula, October, 1909, with notes on ornithology, botany and entomology . Scrub Robin (Dryuiatedus—brunneopygius)with nest and young. r V. Er. Angove and .Mr. Leacli comparing notes. 12 of the party, wlio was renowned for heavy breathing. The noiseat times that issued from his tent would make one imagine awater hog had invaded the camp! Night birds gave forth theirlonely calls. The boobcok owl was heard in the big timber callingto his mate with the familar mopoke! mopoke! The weirdand plaintive whistle of the stone plover, or curlew, as he dwelt
. A record of the expedition to Eyre's Peninsula, October, 1909, with notes on ornithology, botany and entomology . Scrub Robin (Dryuiatedus—brunneopygius)with nest and young. r V. Er. Angove and .Mr. Leacli comparing notes. 12 of the party, wlio was renowned for heavy breathing. The noiseat times that issued from his tent would make one imagine awater hog had invaded the camp! Night birds gave forth theirlonely calls. The boobcok owl was heard in the big timber callingto his mate with the familar mopoke! mopoke! The weirdand plaintive whistle of the stone plover, or curlew, as he dweltupon the last note of his call, was merged into the rest of thesound. A great chorus of frogs kept a grand concert going withimmense zest through the livelong night. The occasional thud orbreaking of a stick close by in the scrub betrayed the jumpinggait of some marsupial, but even these sounds soon seemed furtherand further awaj- as we gently slid into the Land of as the silvery light of the coming day becomes perceptiblein the eastern sky (long before Old Sol paints that point of th;compass with his fiery tongues of light), the harsh, Quack-quackof the watlebird is h
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