Maclsa 1967 C. melanostris 18 July] Marsh when disturbed. Other birds were in the Marsh. 20 July FAP found a young juvenile lost or abandoned near Micro Mer and giving distress calls. Collected it. So at least some breeding occurred here this year. 21 July Dan and I found a flock of ca. 12 feeding on an old weasel road near EAA. Later, near Family Lagoon, I saw a F that definitely had young nearby. Not enough time to find the young, but no doubt. Maybe (probably) the F of the juv. found yesterday. Otherwise, saw very few. Central Marsh group seems to have departed, leaving numbers way down from recent days. 22 July One flock of ca. 12 birds in Central Marsh feeding around the weasel road. Otherwise, found none in Holmes' Marsh. 24 July None in Central Marsh. Numbers are conspicuously down. 25 July Again - few. Transected over 9000 marsh habitat and saw none. Finally found ca. 6 birds sitting quietly around torns and boughs of Gasline Ridge. 26 July A flock of about 30, feeding from the weasel road in Central Marsh near P's Plot. Collected 4:811762,