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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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with leaves; on being removed from its positionit fell to pieces. * Since this statement was published in the Proceedings of the Royal PhysicalSociety (Edinburgh), Mr A. A. C. Le Souef, Director of the Zoological Gardens,Melbourne, has kindly favoured me with the following :— I think this particular birdmust have been of mature years when Mr. Bailey first got it, as many years ago I cageda number (at least a dozen) of these birds at the gardens here, young green birds,caught at Gembrook, and it was only after the expiration of nearly eight years theybegan to change colour I think four or five birds put on the beautiful blue-blackplumage, and in a year or two died oft. It is, therefore, evident that the birds onlycome to their full plumage in old age, and that accounts for the fact that in a flockof say one hundred birds, which we often used to see at Gembrook. some years ago,there would be only a very few. not half-a-dozen black ones among them Thev dieoff shortly after the change.
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XESTS A.VD EGGS OF AUSTRALIAN BIRPS. ^9 A most remarkable instance, and one fortunate for myself, happenedtlio following season. Mr. Clark went M\Uton Bird (Piiffinux ffiniirDKtri)egging on Phillip Island, when it occurred to him to visit the mainlandagain in the neighhoiuhood of his Satin Birds ne.st of the previous season.The result was that he foiuid another pair of eggs, which arc now in mycollection. I never enjoyed the opportunity of taking a nest of the Satin Bird,but at Christmas-tide, 1884, I saw a perfect bower on the north shore ofLake King, Gippsland. The stnicturc wa.s situated in a cleared spaceupon the ground, amongst some bracken in open forest. The clearedspace was twenty-six inches across, the bower or avenue being in thecentre of this space. The two parallel tapering walls of twigs were abouttwelve inches high, by a breadth of ten inches, and were six inches apart.The walls were somewhat ciurved, archiug towards the top. The chiefdecorations within the bower, and ro

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