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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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end of the year or evento January. 375. PaBDALOTUS UROPYGIALTR, GoTlld. (87) CHESTNUT-RUMPED PARDALOTE. Figure.—Gould: Birds of Australia, fol., vol. ii., pi. 41. Reference.—Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. x., p. 62. Previous Description of Eggs.—Ramsay: Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.Wales, vol. ii., p. no (1878). Geographical Biatrihution.—North-western Australia, NorthernTerritory, Queensland, and South Australia (interior). Next.—Similar in construction and situation to tho^e described ofP. punrfafut and P. melanocephalus. Eggx.—Clutch, three to four; roundish or round oval in fonii ;texture of shell fine; surface slightly glossy; colour, pure wlute.Dimensions in inches of a full clutch from Yorke Peninsula : (1) -68 x -5,(2) -64 X -52, (3) -63 x -5, (4) -62 x -52. Ohservatinns.—As far as our knowledge extends, this very finespecies completes the quintet of bank burrowing Pardalotes, all ofwhich, as regards their nidifiaition, differ from those that usually buildin holes of trees.
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NESTING-HOLE OF THE BLACK-HEADED IAKDALUTE.From a Photo by S. If. Jackson. iVESTS AND ECGS OF AUSTKAUAN BIRDS. 449 Again T have to quote Dr. Rainsay, wlio states:—This speciesis an inhabitant of the Gulf of Carpcntaiia district. I have receivedit in collections from the Norman River, and also received the head,wings and t,ai), accompanied witli eggs, from Mr. William E. Arniit,taken on the Eitheridge River, where tliis gentleman found it breedingin tunnels dug in the banks of creeks and watercourses, in companywith P. rnhricatus. I can see no difference in the eggs of this andthose of P. riihriratuK* The remarks on P. riihriratiix are equallyapplicable to this species also. Mr. Armit assures me that they breedand nest in the same way, and often accompany each other in smalltroops, searching for insects among the leafy tops of trees. Bothspecies seem to be confined to the inland distiicts. 376.—Pardalotus quadragintus, Gould.—(83)FORTY-SPOTTED PARDALOTE. ^igurc.—Gould ; Birds o

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