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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
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his exploration of thecountry about Lake Eyre. They were in that district observed toconceal themselves during the day in the thick patclics of shrulibvsamphire on the salt flats bordering the creeks on Lake Eyre. The Calvert Expedition (1896) obtained evidences of the NigiitParrakeet in the North-west desert as far north as Separation Well.* * While on the subject of the North-west, I may mention a bird called the.Spinifex Parrakeet, which is stated to have been discovered by Mr. .\. Calvertduring a former expedition (iSqi). I have not seen the Parrot named on any.Au.stralian list. The following is its description, taken from The ICnglishIllustrated Magazine, vol. x. (1892-3) :— .Six and a quarter inches long ; head,brilliant cobalt-bluc, which blended into softer tints down the back; wingscovered with bright-blue ijuill feathers; the breast, emerald green upon aground-work of orange-yellow ; the belly feathers also yellow, and tail feathersflaming yellow, edged with emerald-green.
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XH O (XI > z I o z HCO wz NESTS AND EGGS OF AUSTRALIAN BIRDS. 65i ORDER—COLUMB/E: PIGEONS AND DOVES.Sub=order—Columba : Pigeons. FAMILY—TRERONlDyE. Sub-family—PTiLopuDiNiE. 531.—Ptulopus swainsoni, Gould.—(451)RED-CROWNED FRUIT PIGEON. Figure.—Gould ; Birds of Australia, fol., vol. v., pi. 55. Rejirenu.—Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. xxi., p. 95. Previous Description of Eggs.—Campbell ; Victorian Naturalist,vol. xiv., p. 5 (1S97). Gidyraphical Distributmit.—Queensland and New South Wales, alsoNew Guinea. Nest.—A vei-y slight platform, 0 or 6 inches across and about 2inches in thickness, composed of dry twigs placed in a slender homontalfork. The contents may be easily seen through the nest from beneath. Eijys.—Clutch, one; an elhpse in form; texttue of shell hue; surfaceglossy; coloiu, white. Dimensions in inches: 116 xSI. A smallerand narrower example measures : 108 x -73. Observations.—The various fmit-eating Pigeons, for the beauty oftheir painted plumage,

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