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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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n the 14th November,1892. We secured not only Bitterns eggs, but those of other rarewaterfowl; also we had to contend with myriads of persevering leeches.A tiger snake incident or two at times imparted activity to wading.The following day, in a swamp, four or five miles further up the river,this time in bulrushes near a White Ibis rookeiy, we flushed a Bittern,which winged its way across the swamp in half bewildered fashion.We were not long in finding the nest, which contained a full set offive pale-olive eggs. The illustration of the Bitterns nest was taken during this trip.It was no easj undertaldng to get an effective picture when yovi con.siderthe troiible of cari-ying a camera through a swamp, then fixing it in athick bed of reeds. Remember, too, you are standing in water and feela twinge every time a great leech fastens on your leg. Above wateryou fare no better, for flies get into your eyes, while mosquitoes feaston your sunbximt neck. Usual breeding season November to January.
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z NESTS .l.VD EGGS OF AUSTRALIAN BIRDS. FAMILY—CICONIID^: STORKS. Sub-family—Ciconun,!;. 969 719-—Xenorhynchus asiaticus, Latham.—(544)BLACK-NECKED STORK (JABIRU). Tigure.—Gould : Birds of Australia, fol., vol. vi., pi. 51. Rejerencc.—Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. .\.,xvi., p. 310. Previous Descriptions of Eggs.—Hume : Nests and liggs Indian Birds,vol. iii., p. 607 (1875), (Oates ed.) vol. iii., p. 265 (1S90);White-fryon : Proc. Roy. Soc, Queensland, vol. iii., p. 137(1886) ; North : Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S. Wales, 2nd ser., vol.ii., p. 987 (1S87) ; Campbell : Victorian Naturalist (18S8). dfoyraphical Uistrihuti<in.—Whole of AustraUa (accidental to Vic-toria); also New Guinea up to Further India and India. Xed.—A large and somewhat flat structure, composed of sticks,lined inside with grass or such like material, and situated in a largetree usualh standing in a swamp. Dimensions, about 4 feet across by3 feet in height. Eggs.—Clutch, two to four; round or stout oval in

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