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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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young birds ready toleave the nest having been seen on the 8th August. The time whenI observed the nest building was towards the end of November.Therefore, we may infer that the breeding season is from the end ofJune or the beginning of July to December. 350.âManorhtna melanophrys, Latham.-â(357)BELL MINER. Figure.âGould; Birds of Australia, fol., vol. iv., pi. 8o. Reference.âCat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. ix., p. 259. Previous Descriptions of Eggs.âCampbell : Southern Science Recordand Nests and Eggs Austn. Birds, pi. i, fig. 357 (1883) ; alsoProc. Austn. Assoc, vol. vii., p. 635 (i8g8) ; North : ,\ustn.Mus. Cat., p. 231 (1889). Geogrnphiral Distrihutinti.â^South Queensland (Highfields), NewSouth Wales, and Victoria. Nest.âCup-shaped, round, neat, but somewhat frail; composed offine twigs partially covered outwardly with fine shreds of bark andcocoons, but sometimes entirely covered with moss and cocoons,occasionally ornamented round the rim with broad soft leaves; inside
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NESTS AND EGGS OF AVSTHATJAN BIRDS. 417 lined sparingly with rootlets and fino twigs, and on the bottom withdowny seeds; usually fastened by the rim as if sewn bv spiders webto the horizont,Tl twigs of a bush or small tree, sometimes attached toa braekcn frond, in forest eountiy. Dimensions over all, 3 to 4 incitesby 2 inches in depth; egg cavity, 21 inches across by IJ inches deep.(See illustration.) Egnn.âClutch, two, rai-ely three; long-o^al or oval in form;toxtiue fine ; sui-faoe glossy ; beautiful rich flesh-colour, distinctly markedand spotted, more especially on the api^x, with rich chestnut- or reddish-brown and dull purplish-brown. Dimensions of a clutch in inches:en -9.-1 X â 6.i, (2) -9 X -63, (Piatt- 14.) Ohservniinnx.âThis Honeyeater has an esthetic plumage of golden-green, the small naked spaces behind the dai-k-brown eyes arc red,while the bill and feet are yellowish. Total length. 7 inches and 8inches. Captain Grant, when in Western Port, Victoria, 1801, wrote: â

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