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She was at the house she built, surrounded by mallee trees and filled with prints of her own wildlife photographs: grizzly bears from a trip to Alaska, a small chameleon on an electric-green leaf.

No surface water is to be obtained in the mallee district; its silence is only disturbed by the melancholy wail of the dingo.

"I guess it would be easier to find a scrubber in the mallee than to get on the track of a man who is hiding himself here."

Stat. v.r. mallee, scrub        8 Upper brown; wings brown barred white; tail brown, slightly tipped white; under grayish-brown; long legs; shy, runs; f., smaller.

The mallee scrub is formed by a species of dwarf eucalyptus, the mulga scrub by a species of thorny acacia.