Great initiative from Alistair.
About two years ago, I had a long corresondence
with BA to do just this. They said they couldn't and then finally sent me
an rtf file in quite poor format. So, instead, I photocopied the Combined
Indexes in the back of Volume 7 and I use them a lot.
Even in this pdf form, the indexes are in single
column whereas the printed version is in three-column pages so that the English
name index is five pages instead of 22, and the Scientific name index is
10 pages instead of 43.
I remain bemused why we can not get a pdf file
which is a facsimile of the printed versions.
Re bird-watching: at Kellys Swamp this
morning there were the five Royal Spoonbills (one juvenile roosting in a tree
full of ibis near the school), four Black-fronted Dotterels, 8 Pink-eared ducks
(or thereabouts) and a Pacific Heron flew over. Otherwise the usual
suspects. I did not see any sandpipers.
David Rosalky
