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Title: Nests and eggs of Australian birds, including the geographical distribution of the species and popular observations thereon
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Campbell, Archibald James, 1853-
Subjects: Birds -- Eggs Australia Birds -- Nests Australia Birds -- Australia
Publisher: Sheffield, Printed for the author by Pawson & Brailsford
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ch of threeeggs is added to oiu- collection. The situation of the eggs was aboutfifteen feet from the gi-oimd. The original eggs Govild described were taken on the 8th November, byhis useful aboriginal companion, Natty. The specimens were in afoi^ward state of incubation. Mr. Wm. Wliite (Adelaide), on twooccasions on Kangaroo Island took fom- eggs of the Boobook Owl fromdeserted Ravens nests. A curious place indeed for an Owl to deposither eggs. The Boobook Owl can fly by day as well as by night; but it is notgenerally known that it sometimes takes its prey by day—at all events,in the subdued daylight of a tliick forest. On one occasionMr. G. A. Keartland, about two oclock in the afternoon, in the Dan-denongs, shot a Boobook in the act of devouring something which provedto be a freslily-captured Pilot Bird (Pycnopfihis). The usual breeding months are October, November, and December. The illustration, Robbing a Boobook Owls Nest, depictsMr. Tom Brittlebank riding liis favomite hobby.
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TAKING A llOOBOOK OWLS NEST. From a Iholo by the Author. NESTS AXD EGGS OF AUSTKAUAN BIRDS. ^c, 31.— NiNox BooBOOK (sub-spccies) oceli.ata.Hombron and Jacquinot. MARBLED OWL. Utjennci—Cat, Birds Brit Mus.,vol ii , p. 170. Gfographical Uixtrihiitiim.—^West and North-west Australia. NorthernTerritory and Queensland, Nest and Eggs.—Undescribed. Ohnervatinns.—Goulds N. mariiKiratua is merely a fully-adult maleof the ordinary Boobook Owl, while X. uctUaia has been judged a sub-species of the same bird (i.e., the Boobook), from wliich it may bedistinguished by its smaller size and by the more rufous colouring of itsplumagi. Mr Keartland states: —Whilst collecting near the Fitzroy River(north-west) his blackboy noticed a pair of Marbled Owls perched justoverhead. Tiiey gazed vacantly whilst the blackboy climbed to seciu-e aHoney Eaters Nest, and on his descending the tree Mr. Keartland shotone owl, the other escaping before he could reload. These birds seemed tocompress their fea

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