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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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mated the two fonns, although at first hewas inclined to separate tliem. They have again been separated on theauthority of Dr. Shai-pe. Almost every dweller of the forest is acquainted with the pecuUar louddouble note of the Grey Crow Shrike. The nest of this species I lasttook was during a South Australian excursion to Kingston. The nestwas situated in a c<i.suarina in the coastal sciub, was somewhat shallow,and lined sparingly with tendrils of creeping plants, grass, and rootlets.Dimensions over all, 16 to 18 inches by 10 inches in depth; egg cavity,6 inches across by 3 inches deep. Clutch, three eggs. Date, 19thSeptember, 1899. Breeding months commence in August, continuing to October, or later. 49.— Strepera cuneicaudata (sub-species) plumbea, GouldLEADEN CROW SHRIKE. Reference.—Cat. Birds Brit. Mus . vol. iii., p. 60. Previous Descriptions of Eggs.—Campbell: Proc, Roy. Soc. Victoria,vol. iii., p. I, pi. I. fig. 7 and g (iSgo) Gtoyriiphical Distribution.—West Australia.
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NliSlS AXn EGGS OF AUSTKALIAN 7i/KIKS. 6( yest,—Open, soniewl^at large, composed outwardly of lough, deadsticks and twigs, fimily lined inside with grasses, and situated in the forkedbranches of any suitable tree. Dimensions over all, about 18 inches;inside or egg cavity. 7 inclies across by 3 inclies deep. Egyx.—Clutch, three; long oval in shape; texture fairly fine; siu-faceslightly glossy; coloiu, deep redcUsh-buff or brownish-red, indistinctlymottled all over with a darker shade of the same colour. Some examplesare much lighter in colotir, more resembling those of .S. anjuto orS. cuiteirtiiidafa. Dimensions in inches of a pair: (1) r89 x 118.(2) 1-78 X M7 ; of an odd and somewhat roundish example : 1-67 x 12. Observations.—Diuing my excursions in the forests of Western Aus-tralia I enjoyed ample opportunity of observing this biid, or the Squeaker. as the Colonists there commonly call it. I have been ableto approach near enough for me to distinguish the yellow of their largee

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