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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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ears afterwards, Mr. Le Souefwas enabled, through the instrumentahty of Mr. R. Hislop, to describethe eggs of this beautiful species from the same district. On the 12thDecember, 1895, Mr. Hislop found a nest containing two eggs, placed in thefork of a horizontal branch of an iron-wood (eucalypt) tree, at a heightof about twenty feet from the gioimd. The nest was composed of casuarinaneedles and other leaves fastened together with spiders webs. Another nest was taken on the 23rd December the following season. Breeding months October to Januaiy. 79.— Edoliisoma tenuirostre, Jardine.—(109)Campephaga jardinii, Euppell. CATERPILLAR CATCHER. Figure—Gould ; Birds of Australia, fol , vol. ii., pi. 6o.Reference—Cat. Birds Brit. Mus.. vol. iv , p 55 Previous Descriptions of Eggs.—North: Rec.Austn. Mus.. vol. i . p. 177(1891); Campbell: Victorian Naturalist (1897). Geographical Distribution.—Northern Territory, Queensland, NewSouth Wales, and Victoria, also New Guinea and Am Islands.
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VESTS A.VD EGGS Of AVSTKALIAN BIRDS. loi .Vc.,^—Small and shallow; composed of very fine twigs, casuarinaneedles, and a few pieces of bark, stuck together with spiders web, andoutwaidly decorated with portions of silveiy-gi-ey hchens, a few bits alsobein? inside. It resembles that of a Gruiicn/us also in its situation—a thinforked branch of a tree—eucalyptus, casuarina, or banksia. Dimensionsover all, 3A inches; egg cavity, 2( inches across by J inch deep.(See illustration.) Eggs.—Clutch, one invariably; lengthened in form, with a sharp-pointed apex, like some of the Thickheads eggs, notably Porhycephalao/ivaren; texture of shell fine; surface slightly glossy; colour, pale orlight-green (the hue being more beautifid and intense when a specimen isfreshly blown), spotted and blotched nearly over the whole siuface withroundish markings of umber and slate. Dimensions in inches of singleexamples: (1) 1-34 x-88, (2) 1-24 x-88, (3) 1-2 x-86. (Plate 7.) Olixerrafions.—This fine spec

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