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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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ts die, it only measures six or seveninches across. The eggs are usually four in niU7iber for a. sitting ; buton two occasions I found five in a nest. The eggs are placed in thewet nest with their smaller ends pointing inwards. These nests aremuch smaller than those of Poi/irip/x iinrif /m/hiiii/ict. and are alwaysmuch greener, with vegetation, &c. To Mr. Jackson I am also much indebted for the splendid illustrationdepicting a nest of the Parra resting upon a floating orbicular leaf of thewater-lily, smiounded by a crop of beautiful flowei-s. Breeding season, September to February. FAMILY—CHARADRIID^ : PLOVERS. Sub-family—AitENARiiNiE. 597.—AuENAIilA INTEIUIIKS. LiiHiajus.—(532) TURNSTONE. Figure.—Goud : Birds of Australia, fol., vol. vi., pi. 3c).Reference.—Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. xxiv.. p. q2.Previous Descriptions of Eggs.—Varioius. QciicirnphirciJ Tiistrihviiiin.—Whole of Australia and Tasmania ; alsoalmost the rest of the world, breeding towards tlii north.
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.\£STS AAV EGGS Of AfSrAAliAX BLKDS. 775 Sf^t.—A mere depression in tlie ground, liued witli a ftvv grass-bents.Situated on a saudy or rocky soil in a bare place, 01 on a Hat covered withheath and a few stunted bushes (Butler). tjijiju.—Clutch, four ; pynforiu m shape ; texture of shell iiue ; surfaceglossy; colour, greeuish-stonc, boldly daubed and smudged, especiallyon the lai-ger end, with umber—some of the markings have the appear-ance of having been wiped on obliquely with a brush ; other faint gieymarkings also appear. Dimensions in inches; (1) 155 x 114,(2) 1-55 X 1-12. Observationii.—The Tmiistone is a thorough globe-trotter, distri-buting itself about the seashores of the world, of coiu^e including thecoast-line of Australia and Tasmania. My only sight of this lively,restless nomad was on the mushroom-shaped limestone rocks known asHoutmans Abrolhos, off Western Australia, where I observed smallflocks of sixes and sevens about the reefs at low water. They werescarcel

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