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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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White-headed variety, for, as Gould mentions, the white spotsof the quills (instead of reddish ones as in the S. leucncejjhahi) are onlyseen by spreading the wing. Mr. Waller, when skinning what he supposed to be S. hucocephala,noticed the white spots on the under side of the quills, and as he did notremember seeing them in that species before he drew Dr. Ramsaysattention to the difference. The result was that Dr. Ramsay re-examined his series and found other examples which he described asS. alhafa. 280.—Sittella pii.eata, Gould.—(376)BLACK-CAPPED TREE RUNNER. Figine.—Gould; Birds of Australia, fol., vol. iv., pi. 104 Reference.—Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. viii , p. 362. Previous Descriptions 0/ Eggs. - Gould: Birds of Australia (1848); alsoHandbook, vol. i. p. 612 (1865); Lucas ; Victorian Naturalist (1884);North: Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S. Wales, vol. ii., 2nd- ser., p. 409 (1887). Gengraphical Diatrihvtion.—New South Wales, Victoria, South, West, and North-west (?) Aiistralia,
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NEST OK THE WHITE-HEADED TKEE KUNNEK.From a Photo by the Author. AESrS A.VD EGGS OF AiSTHAUAN blKDS. 341 Next.—Similar to that of Sittella rhri/sitptfni; beautifully wrought,almost entirely of webs and spiders cocoons, coated outw;irdly withsmall sliields of greyish outer bark which assimilate the particularcoloui of the branch supporting the nest; frequently the rim is deco-rated with tine pieces of Ucheu; inside hned with cocoons, white orgreenish in coloui-. Usual situation in a fork of a dead branch of aoucalypt, melaleuca or other tree. Dimensions over all, 2^ mchcs by2J inches in depth (i.e. from the top to the prong of the branch);egg cavity, If inches across by IJ inches deep. Eygs.—Clutch, thice usually, four occasionally, one rare instance ofseven (probably a combination clutch); roundish in form, or sharplycompressed at one end ; texture of shell fine ; surface glossy ; colour,greyish-white, boldly blotched and spotted with dark olive or sepia andslate. Dimensions in in

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