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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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easons;some of their information, being either confirmatory of what wasalready known or being altogether original, was exceedingly valuableto me. A few of the earlier breeders lay towards the end of April or afterthe autumnal rains, some in May, while the majoritv have laid byJune or Julv, the young appearing during August and September. Ofcourse, eggs may be seen as late as August, but on account of thelengthened incubation needed, they may have been deposited weekspreviously. The hvmters informed me the first voung noticed by themthat season (1895) was at the end of June. Mr. Murdoch Macaulay.to whose kindness I am indebted for a speciallv selected set of eggs,informs me in the season of 1891 the Emus did not commence to laytill the middle of May. Tlie laying period is much regulated by therainy season of the year, and they do not lay. or only do so in smallproportions, when the seasons are droughty or bad. * Since the above wis written the Emu has been protected for the whole year.
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EMUS NEST. From a Photo by the Author. N£STS AND EGGS OF AUSTRALIAN BIRDS. 1061 With regard to tlio maxiimim number of eggs laid by Emus, I citethe following Rivcrina data:—Mr. George Warner saw a clutch con-taining sixteen eggs on the TuUa run; Mr. 1). Parker, a hunter, tookon the 261 ii May, 1895, on Nyang, .seventeen eggs from one nest, and,remarkable to sUite, the eggs were in two tiers, twelve in the bottomand live above; but 1 think Mr. Neil Macaulay takes the record witheighteen, which he counted in a nest at Dunvegan. I have no recordsof fifteen eggs, but know of several instances of fourteen. As a test for the general average number of eggs laid by the Emu,the following statement sliows a number of nests containing seven eggsand over, foimd during two successive seasons in Riverina. 1894. 1895. Found by Messrs. Macaulay Bros. Found by E mu-Eggers Camp. Date. Nest. Eggs- Date. Nest. Eggs. loth May .. 9 April I 10 27th ;, .. 7 May I 17 27th 12 ,, I 12 28th (each 7) 14 ,, 3 (

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